ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.

UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT MANI KRISHNA BANJE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur | Kharagpur, India | Advancing SDG 16, SDG 3 & UNAI 8

" My drive to foster student well-being and build supportive communities stems from my leadership experience as Executive Head of the Institute Wellness Group. The Millennium Fellowship will empower me to sharpen my leadership, collaboration, and project design skills while aligning my initiatives with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I am eager to gain the tools, mentorship, and global perspective to envision innovative solutions and create campuses where every student feels heard, valued, and empowered to thrive. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Fighting Mental Health Issues for College Students
Problems such as loss of friends, inability to manage an independent lifestyle, social anxiety and the need for connection in life lead to people ending up lonely, dejected, and unmotivated in their college freshman years. This is true even in the senior years, with academic and extra-academic stress taking center stage, allowing a greater deal of horrors to manifest, such as loss of friends, academic depreciation, and much more. The idea is to organize large-scale, crowd-centric events like Suraksha Shurveer, to act as a common place for Ralshabandhan, KHAT, an anonymous letter to a loved one, and Halloween, to target the fear that makes us wear masks in real life. These events are conducted by my club, The Institute Wellness Group(IWG), the mental health awareness group on campus. IWG consists of trained students who shall enforce welfare activities among the student community and act as primary nodes of mature student counselling who are working for the cause of 'It's Okay not to be okay.' We also curate innovative posts on our social media handle and take up events/campaigns, making people on campus aware of the existing counselling and therapy services and also essential tips to lead a hassle-free college life.
About the Millennium Fellow
Mani Krishna Banje is a fourth-year undergraduate student of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, hailing from Nizamabad, Telangana. As a former Executive Head (Now Advisor) of the Institute Wellness Group (IWG), he led campus-wide initiatives to strengthen mental health, emotional resilience, and peer support systems. Mani Krishna’s objective is to build a campus culture where every student feels heard, supported, and empowered to thrive both academically and personally. Passionate about social impact and inclusive leadership, he combines technical insight with empathy to design programs that foster dialogue, reduce stigma, and build a healthier student community.











