SEWA NYAYA UTTHAN FOUNDATION
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Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh: Marking one year of the pioneering Sankalp Project, a major conference on Anti-Ragging, Gender-Based Violence Awareness and Campus Safety Sensitisation was organised at the LNCT Group of Colleges, Bhopal.
The conference was organised by Network for Access to Justice and Multidisciplinary Outreach (NAMO) Foundation with Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation (SNU) as the support partner.
The event brought together educational administrators, faculty members, legal experts, and students to discuss growing concerns relating to campus safety, sexual exploitation, ragging, grooming, coercion, and reporting mechanisms available to students facing abuse.
Among the keynote speakers were NHRC Member Priyank Kanoongo, Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation founder Swati Goel Sharma and Madhya Pradesh Commission for Protection of Child Rights head Nivedita Sharma.
The speakers addressed participants on the importance of creating safe educational spaces and empowering students with legal awareness.
The conference marked the completion of one year of Project Sankalp, an initiative supported by Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation and implemented on the ground by NAMO Foundation.
Launched in July 2025, Sankalp was developed as a structured intervention to address emerging threats faced by students, particularly those relating to ragging, gender-based violence, sexual exploitation, grooming networks, coercive relationships, and religious-conversion-linked targeting within educational spaces.
Under the project, workshops, awareness programmes, counselling sessions, and legal sensitisation initiatives have been conducted across educational institutions to help students:
• Identify patterns of grooming and manipulation.
• Recognise sexual exploitation and abuse.
• Understand legal remedies available under Indian law.
• Report incidents safely and effectively.
• Build awareness regarding campus safety and personal security.
• Understand their constitutional and legal rights.
Over the past year, Sankalp has engaged with at least 8000 students and educators across 100 campuses in Madhya Pradesh, helping establish a culture of vigilance, awareness, and early intervention.
The initiative has sought to address a critical gap in higher education by equipping students not merely with academic knowledge but also with the awareness necessary to protect themselves from exploitation, abuse, and coercion.
As Sankalp enters its second year, Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation reaffirmed its commitment to expanding the programme’s reach and building safer campuses through legal awareness, student empowerment, and community engagement.
