Be a Jagrik- Active and Responsible Citizenship

Samvidhan LIVE! Be a Jagrik is a step towards nurturing values based leadership among adolescents and youth. The balance of rights and duties, the focus on issues and capacities and the foregrounding of fraternity, as a value; as well as the fact that the game may be used multiple times with multiple cohorts of adolescents and is easily contextualised across different social realities, all make it a tool that can be taken to scoul (scale with soul).

As the game progresses, building capacities among youth and adolescents to act within the framework of the Constitution, we see Samvidhan LIVE! Be a Jagrik, evolve into a nationwide youth movement.  Creating empowering spaces where young people can be nurtured into aware, awakened and active citizens has a multiplier effect, in that this journey of active citizenship that the Jagriks embark on just becomes the very beginning of what may be a life-long commitment in that direction, and one that inspires other peers to come along. 

In the past few months, over 60 youth workers have been capacitated to run this journey. In a new iteration of the game Child Rights have been layered in and it has been adapted in Hindi, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati.

This toolkit is being taken to civil society organisations, CBOs, schools, universities, government platforms like NSS, NYKS and Education Departments, at the national, state and district levels.  Our website www.commutiny.in/jagrik will be aggregating and capturing experiences of this movement across the country and is a space that you can engage with for more resources, learning and guidance on how to create effective, and empowering spaces that enhance the agency of adolescents and youth.

Links:

• A short film on the training programme