• Health & Well-being:
  • Caring for elder citizens: A project to identify health needs of elder citizens and mobilise resources to fulfil them through volunteers, NGOS, RWAs, medical institutions, social welfare organisations, social enterprises etc.
  • Health Awareness campaigns on mental health and emotional health- Workshops for Students, parents, imparting effective tools for mental health & emotional health.
  • Health Awareness campaigns on Basic Life support, first aid for students
  • Health Awareness campaigns on Lifestyle diseases and choices; for citizens
  • Yoga and meditation for well-being; online and in-person classes in Tricity
  • Wellness street festival at Sec 17 Plaza
  • Combating loneliness in the age of social media and technology; suicide prevention initiatives, particularly among youngsters
  • YouTube Podcasts on subjects of high relevance The first event on Mental Health Awareness coincided with World Mental Health Day on October 10, 2025.

PROPOSED ACTION PLAN – PILOT PROJECT
1. Focus on high school and higher secondary school students.
2. Pilot project to be done in 5 selected schools, for class 7,8,9 and 11th std students.
3. 5 schools are to be selected through the office of DEO, Chandigarh Administration.
4. Separate sensitization Training workshop to be conducted for:
a) Principals
b) Class Teachers- 20 class teachers (of class 7,8,9,11) x 5 schools-100 class teachers
c) Counsellors – 87 counsellors covering all 118 schools
5. Content for training to developed by the mental health professional (MHP) team led by Dr Jyoti, Ms Navneet under the guidance of Dr Sidana and Dr Krishan Kumar.
6. Training workshop to be conducted by MHP team for counsellors in 3 batches of 30 each.
7. Special Yoga classes to be conducted through the yoga instructors deployed in the 5 selected pilot schools, for class 7,8,9 and 11 students for 2 sections each; 8 classes to be taken every day, by 2 instructors; 4 classes each. 2 yoga instructors required for one school: 2×5= 10 yoga instructors.
8. Training of yoga instructors will be given by Mrs. Amudha (Yoga Expert of Krishnamacharya Yoga) and yoga teachers trained by her in the week starting 15th Dec.
9. Brahmakumaris Holistic Well-being Program (BHWP), which is a comprehensive program will be conducted in 1 selected pilot school.
10. Some interesting, engaging, fun activities to be conducted for everybody during assembly, zero period.