Empowering citizens through Constitutional Awareness

We, the people of India - the citizens of the country, the owners of the nation - do not fully understand our Constitution. It's like the owner of a house not understanding the ownership deed.  It's like living in a place but not understanding what our rights and obligations are, what we are entitled to and how we can access and participate. This prevents us from being able to live as full citizens and opens us up to exploitation and injustice.

We have initiated an empowering and transformational “Constitution Learning Scale Up” Project. This project focuses on enabling citizens to understand and use constitutional values and framework for action towards bettering their lives and communities. The enabling process involves training, awareness, and working on community issues. In three years, 2021-24, we aim to reach citizens across a large number of different networks in all states in India.  

To achieve this objective, two critical steps have to be taken:

One, to build capabilities of facilitators, namely Constitution Champions, who will reach out and work with citizens.

Two, to build an online platform through which, the Constitution Champions and citizens, can access resources, materials and assistance for continued learning and action. 

200 Constitution Champions will reach out to and empower 2,00,00 citizens during the course of this project. This will result in betterment on a wide variety of issues in personal and community spaces. In some situations, it could result in better access to entitlements like ration, widow pension or good roads and schools. In other situations, it could mean standing up against personal abuse or unequal treatment. In still others, it could mean mobilising people for awareness and education or participation in panchayats. An interactive and robust online resources platform will be available for continued learning, networking and support. The impact is expected far beyond the life of the project. This empowerment will last forever.