International Youth Day is marked and celebrated in India and throughout world on 12th August each year, with an aim to rejoice the contribution youths make to society. Young people have led the world in encouraging recycling and green lifestyles and the use of new technology. Hence, an awareness and promotional activity was organized on 12th August 2015 to celebrate International Youth Day by Department of Biotechnology for M.Sc. students of Biotechnology & Microbiology. The students prepared and distributed badges with inspirational messages among faculty, students and office staff to spread awareness about this event.