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As many as 1,614 rapes and 1,456 other sexual assaults were committed by juveniles in the country in 2017, reveal the latest data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Over 40,000 juveniles were caught across the country in 2017 for their alleged involvement in various offences, with 72 per cent of them belonging to the age group from 16 to 18 years. There were 1,614 cases of rape against juveniles in 2017, 1,456 cases of assault on women with intent to outrage their modesty and 46 cases of attempt to rape, among others, the NCRB said.The government had in 2015 passed the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, which provides for the trial of juveniles in the age group of 16 to 18 years as adult if involved in heinous offences. बलात्कार और हिंसा की घटनाओं ने भारत की छवि को नुकसान पहुंचाया है. Hyderabad Rape Case में एक Veterinary Doctor के साथ सामूहिक बलात्कार कर उसे ज़िंदा जला दिया गया. हालांकि तेलंगाना पुलिस ने वक्त रहते चारों आरोपियों को गिरफ्तार कर...

OPINION  :  Hooch Victims: Not Just Numbers! Prof. T K Thomas  12 Feb, 2019 at 13:59 PM Picture courtesy  Hooch tragedy death toll seems to have become just numbers! The coverage of the tragedy last week, that struck mourners from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh returning after a funeral in Uttarakhand was perfunctory and the death toll had risen to almost 100 when reports last came in. What is unusual about it? Don’t we have statistics of major death tolls in hooch tragedies? In the last decade it is reported that at least a thousand people perished drinking illicit liquor. It is as if such large number of deaths is a routine affair and these human lives seems to have no value and are considered just numbers. The loss of human life, one or hundred in rail, road or air accident; building collapse or fire; medical negligence or an epidemic, stampede or terror attack has to be viewed as loss of precious human lives. It does not matter whether the victims are mal...

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                                                                        Anil Sethi, a retired army general in his 60s, was an alcoholic. After a paralytic attack, he gave up drinking and instead found a substitute in Facebook. He would spend four to five hours a day on it. He became detached from his family. His social life shrunk.  Worried, his family brought him to Vatsyayan for counselling, who found that his dependency on social media was no less than his dependency on alcohol. Shakya Mitra, April 23, 2016  After nine years of being a heavy Facebook user, Kishore Dhiman suddenly deactivated his account. The 32-year-old Delhi resident says that the long hours spent on the social networking site were beginning to take a toll on his mental health. The absence of human touch on Facebook was slowly...

Heady childhood Marijuana addiction is coming out of universities and into schools with children as young as 11 experimenting with it Veenu Sandhu   March 19, 2016 "Doctor, have you tried marijuana?" "No" "Then how do you know it is bad?" Brahmdeep Sindhu, senior psychiatrist at the Civil Hospital in Gurgaon, was stumped when a 14-year-old from a prominent school threw this question at him. "The child then went to great lengths, quoting blogs he had read on the internet, to convince me why he, many of his classmates and some of his juniors, children as young as 12, thought it was harmless, even beneficial, to smoke up." Every month, 15 to 20 new cases of schoolchildren, boys and girls, are brought by their parents to Sindhu for counselling. They are all hooked to cannabis: often marijuana  (the leaf of the plant) and sometimes hashish (extracted from the plant's resin). Far away from Gurgaon, in the fields past Navi Mu...

BANGALORE: Just Rs 20 in pocket. Surviving on single banana for breakfast, rice dish from roadside vendor for lunch, biscuits for tea time. Not a life that you would expect the future CEOs from the most prestigious B-school of the country to lead. But this is what some of the   IIM-B   students experienced for a day early this week — just to know what it is to be poor.   As part of their elective programme 'Inclusive Business Models', 75 students were exposed to another world, one which many of them have only heard about — that of people who live with just Rs 20 per day (the below poverty line cut-off).   The students, in groups of five, went to different slums in and around   Bangalore , interacted with the slum-dwellers, trying to understand their lives and finally come up with suitable business solutions that can help them. Interestingly, some of them even went on to experiment what it is to live with only Rs 20 to get a hands-on experience.   "My ...

We, the volunteers and senior citizens support groups, Indian Temperance Youth Federation volunteers & members of Nada India Foundation network strongly support the petition filed with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh for scrapping a state government-sponsored policy diverting huge amount of grain to factories owned by a clutch of senior politicians of various hues for alcohol production. We also found it strange that at a time when the entire country was reeling under the impact of back-breaking food prices, induced primarily by reduction in their production, the state would pursue such a policy. We also appeal the Prime Minister to review such state policies and curb such initiatives. We also request Government to view the alcohol problem as developmental issue rather just as a disease of those who are dependent on it. According to the report published in The Economic Times on 23 February, 2010, as many as 36 factories, they had been granted licenses by the state government to m...

Sanchita Sharma, Hindustan Times New Delhi, February 09,2010 India will support a global treaty to restrict alcohol use worldwide at the World Health Organisation’s annual World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 17-22 this year. “India and Sweden have decided to work together in the forthcoming World Health Assembly for eventually instituting a framework convention on alcohol control,” said Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. In 2008, India had requested the World Health Organisation to declare October 2 — Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday — as the World No Alcohol Day and introduce global restrictions on alcohol sale, advertising and consumption, similar to those against tobacco. As a result of the tobacco treaty, most countries have imposed bans on smoking in public and workplaces. 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 re...

ETV (Urdu)featured NADA Ear acupuncture in their half an hour evening program "Sahet & Zindagi" on 14Th Oct.2009. NADA Detox & Wellness center operates from Rukmani Devi Poly Clinic 10/28, Yogmaya Temple (Inside) Near (SDM office) Mehrauli New Delhi. Dr.Ajay Vats NADA ADS & trainer explained how NADA ear acupuncture works in stress management,alcohol treatment and general well being. The three success stories were also shown as part of the program. Suneel Vatsyayan, Chairman of the Nada India Foundation explained how use of ear acupuncture is a health prevention approach and helps people specially to those who avoid treatment.

A national Hindi women magazine "Vanita" (Nov.2009 issue) published one page report "We shall over come" on Nada India women related interventions and success stories.The Article features Anju,Firdos,Bhawana&Sajada the peer educators and their success stories. The article also covers an overall view of the Pehchaan activities in the field of women empowerment and welfare ,drug abuse treatment and prevention. Nada runs vocational training center for women and coaching classes for their children also at Chattarpur Village, Delhi.

...........Last year, a Chattarpur-based NGO, Nada India Foundation, visited the locality to impart computer training to senior citizens. “I enlisted for the classes, where people exhorted me to form a society,” says Singh. Luckily, for Singh, the Mandawali community centre set up by the MCD in 2000 was lying vacant—as per Government regulations, any registered charitable society could apply for it. “Nobody ever paid any attention to it. It served as a meeting joint for gamblers,” says Singh. Along with a few others, Singh promptly formed and registered the Senior Citizens Association, of which he is the president. They began with 18 members. In February this year, the 200-sq-ft centre, located in the middle of the Mandawali Subzi Mandi, was opened. Singh, who went from door to door after his daily morning walk to enlist people, is now proud of the 114-member association. For the past six months, opening the doors of the centre at 9 a.m. and closing them at 5.30 p.m. has been a daily r...

The Support Group Route to Rehab http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/The-Support-Group-Route-to-Rehab/349636/ RICHA BHATIA Posted online: Sunday , August 17, 2008 at 11:06:38Updated: Sunday , August 17, 2008 at 11:06:38 Suneel Vatsyayan has introduced peer-based community therapy in de-addiction centres On an ordinary day, Mukesh Narang, a 36-year-old drug addict, would not have woken up at 5.30 a.m. to do household chores. But at Nai Kiran, a de-addiction centre in Narela, he is one of 58 inmates—drug addicts and alcoholics—who follow a strict regimen. “When an addict comes to us, he is very aggressive. It is difficult to make him see reason. A month of doing community work with other addicts usually brings about massive behavioural change in the inmate,” says Bharat Bhushan, founder of the centre. A former drug addict himself, 44-year-old Bhushan picked up the peerbased model for a centre from Suneel Vatsyayan, director of the Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation, where he spent a ye...

38-year-old Hardeep Lal a member of Nada India network… …“A plain hobby turned into a profession. For the street plays, I made the costumes myself from bed sheets and odd items, recalls Lal as he conducts a workshop for adolescent girls at Nada India Foundation in Chhattarpur.” … Indian Express July 27,2008 ... A street called satire RICHA BHATIA Posted online: Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 2351 hrs IST Hardeep Lal and his Deep Group use satire in street plays to get their message across Hardeep Lal’s teenage years in Jalandhar were spent spreading awareness on social issues such as alcoholism and family planning through the Ram Lilas staged every Dusshera. Says 38-year-old Lal, who moved base to Delhi in 1987, “ Alcoholism is a major issue in Punjab and I could see that in my immediate surroundings. My father also suffered from this and it affected our family. I joined a local social organisation Sewak Dal and performed Punjabi plays for them on alcoholism”. The hobby turned into a profe...

Recovery from drug addiction NITIKA MIDHA Action network for trauma-related to drugs, HIV/AIDS, violence and crime Drug abuse has been prevalent in our society for long. Excessive usage of drugs leads to addiction and increased dependency on them, apart from causing physical ailments. The extent and usage of drugs spans from rural population to the urban, from defence to prison population and from adolescents to the aged. Drug consumers range demographically, socially, economically and in gender as well. In spite of various awareness programmes by Govt. and NGOs indicating the repercussions on an individual and society, drug abuse continues to plague our society as a disease and the path to recovery for the addicted is full of hurdles. Relapse is a step which no one can evade during the recovery process. For any recovering person, motivation and guidance are the two major pre-requisites. And who other than peer group can fulfil this requirement more effectively and efficiently. Peer ba...