What is NAVCHETNA ?


You would have noticed that there is an increase of reported violent incidents among children and young adults these days.  Today, a considerable number of criminals are young adults, whether pick-pocketeers, bike borne gangs or young terrorists.  This is an indication that somewhere down the line, measures have to be taken to prevent such violent trends in society, prevent crime and help make a much safer society/city for all.
      • It was perhaps this context that the Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board Ms. Ila Rawat passed a judgement in FIR No. 111/08 police station Ashok Vihar on 4th April, 2008. judgement.

  • To address such problems and also take measures to educate gun licensees about the proper use of arms, we introduced some educative brochures and posters.

  • After a lot of deliberation, however, we decided to target the issue of teenage violence in to-to, in the light of violent incidents including the recent shoot-outs in a school in Gurgaon, apart from reports of stabbing murder etc. by teachers and children.

  • Issues related to teenage violence have a lot of implications for community policing.

  • During May-June 2008, we circulated 500 copies of the Court’s judgment to all the schools in Delhi.  After that we invited all Principals for a meeting.  The Principals’ meeting was held twice in the month of September, October, 2008, and in all, about 200 Principals/representatives attended these meetings.

  • To give  this campaign an identity, we  announced a slogan and logo competition for school children. We thought that in the process of creating the slogan and logo, there would be thinking regarding these issues.

  • In order to inform children, teachers and parents about the ground realities of teenage violence we also compiled a short film on the subject compered by two young constables of Delhi Police.  About 300 copies of this film has been distributed to various
    schools.  


  • About 255 entries for the slogan and logo competition were received.  In order to judge these entries we decided to put together a “Student's Council” comprising students of Kendriya Vidyalayas, Government schools and Public schools.  We also wanted the Student’s Council to advise us on how best this entire problem of teenage violence could be tackled.

The first meeting of Student’s Council was held on 02.12.2008 at NCUI Auditorium and about 30 students participated from various schools.  During this meeting the students felt that starting of a club in schools that would focus on helping children to tackle violence related problems like bulling, ragging, different kinds of extortion etc. would be very helpful.  They also pointed out that gang fights between students in school often spill outside the school wall and have serious repercussions. The students felt that in order to give these clubs confidence to act against bullies, budding extortionists and other anti social elements, drug peddlers etc, it would be a good idea to interface them with the local police officials.

These students also chose the name, slogan and logo designed by Shrishti Sood of class XII, Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan, Delhi as the most befitting for this anti-violence movement.
The name given was NAVCHETNA, slogan “Join Hands to Join Hearts”
  

Thus was born NAVCHETNA with the slogan "Join Hands to Join Hearts".