Nada India Foundation News update

On the occasion of World Health Day 7th April 2010 Suneel Vatsyayan, Chairman,Nada India and member of Indian Temperance Youth Federation (ITYF) interacted with more than 200 children of 9th to 12th classes of CSKM Public School Satbari New Delhi and discussed issues related to harmful use of alcohol and appealed the Indian Government to support the Global Treaty to curb the Alcohol use. World Health Organization’s annual World Health Assembly is scheduled to be held in Geneva on May 17-22 this year. In 2008, India had requested the World Health Organization to declare October 2 — Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday — as the World No Alcohol Day. According to the WHO, two billion people worldwide consume alcohol and 76.3 million have diagnosed alcohol-related disorders. It causes more than 60 types of disease and injury and 1.8 million deaths a year, which represents 3.2 per cent of all deaths worldwide. Accidents related to alcohol consumption account for roughly a third of alcohol deaths. A s...

The closing ceremony of the Jaagriti Quit Smoking Campaign was held on 7 April, 2010. The chief speaker was Mr. Suneel Vatsyayan, Chairman, Nada India Foundation. The ceremony was attended by Dr. Ajay Rana, Director, ATPC, Mrs. Pallavi , Dr. A. K. Srivastava, Director General, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Dr. S. M. Paul Khurana, Director, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Dr. Roumi Deb, Director, Amity Institute of Anthropology, faculty members of Amity Institute of Biotechnology and students.After the introductory speech, a play was performed by the students of the Dramatics Society of Amity Institute of Biotechnology. The play showed how students succumb to smoking due to peer pressure and also the hazards of smoking. This was followed by welcoming speech by Prashant Kaushik, student coordinator of Jaagriti. Bouquets were given to Mr. and Mrs. Vatsyayan by the Director and Director General of Amity Institute of Biotechnology respectively. This was followed by lecture cum Po...

The number of old people in India has increased manifold. In the 1950’s, the number of people above 60 was a mere 5.6 percent of the total population, and it is going to be around 14.4 in 2025. Recently, a Pehchaan One month computer training program was organized by Nada India Foundation from 28th Jan- 05th March 2010 in collaboration with National Institute of Social Defence for people above sixty of Lado Sarai village (South Delhi). This was the fifth attempt after organizing successful training programmes in Ramprestha Dist.Ghaziabad Gurgaon (Haryana), Chhattarpur village and Mandwali village East Delhi.. The certificate distribution ceremony, was held on 03rd April 2010 at Shive Mandir Lado Sari, Sh.Yogender Singh Sejwal , Councilor (MCD) was the Chief Guest. He emphasized the need for more such community efforts on the part of civil society & local government. Mr.Suneel Vatsyayan, Chairperson of Nada India said that Pehchaan (Identity), a program of Nada India is an effor...