Be A Jagrik
ComMutiny – The Youth Collective launches the public initiative, ‘Be a Jagrik – Samvidhan LIVE!…Live the SDGs’. This initiative brings together two ‘constitutions’ – The Constitution of India and the Constitution of the World. Through a board game and a refl-active journey the initative bridges the gap between text books and reality.
It aims to enable young aware and active citizens or Jagriks, live and experience the SDGs and the rights and duties enshrined in the Indian Constitution. As the Jagriks undertake exciting self and community action projects on-ground, they also take their powerful voice for change into the world.
Through spinning of a bottle and rolling of a dice, the Jagriks will get experiential tasks to understand the Indian Constitution and SDGs. The initiative through this game will also collect promises of young people and connect to relevant duty bearers to hold them accountable for the roles they have to play towards nation building.
The public initiative will take adolescents and youth across the country through a leadership journey while evolving their capacities on constitutional literacy, sustainable development, access to services and participation in decision making process.
Spread across 14 states and 33 partners, 65000 young people (Jagriks) will directly engage with civic action through a constitutional setup, supported by the Constitution of the world. This cohort of vibrant citizens, one that is engaged, responsible, constitutionally aware will be able to better navigate through real life challenges within the constitutional framework.
It will create an online footprint of 5 million impressions and will enable online learning and sharing space for young people to engage and converge with the four pillars of democracy.
An initiative by ComMutiny- The Youth Collective and its forum members, Samvidhan LIVE The Jagrik Project is a journey to engage young Jagriks (Jagruk Nagrik Aware Citizens) between the ages of 14 to 30 years in different parts of the country to experience the Constitution. We believe ownership of common spaces is a crying need of the hour. Ownership cannot be given in classrooms. It has to be taken on the streets. Samvidhan LIVE The Jagrik Project, is building young people’s capacities for meeting this challenge as they reflact (reflect+act) in the real world. Through this public initiative, young people will experience how the rights and duties in our constitution are being lived, and report back their experiences to rest of the world.
ComMutiny The Youth Collective along with a coalition of over 30 civil society organisations came together to run Samvidhan LIVE – The Jagrik Project across 16 states of the country. The coalition partners work with a diverse crosssection of young people – urban, rural, college graduates, drop outs, dalits, tribals, religious minorities, young men and women. Through this process the initiative has brought out the voices of youth from diverse and marginalised sections of population and shared the lived experience of the Constitution. Designed in the format of a reallife simulation, Samvidhan LIVE has created a platform for young people to live the ground realities of the Constitution, be aware of their fundamental rights, understand the significance of their fundamental duties, and imbibe the values enshrined in the Constitution of India. Over 480 young Jagriks (Jagrik = Jagruk (aware) + Nagrik (citizen)) around the country, engaged through 22 organisations, have come together for this unusual game, and to address their quest for fun and learning.
