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Press Release: Launch of Project Swachhta by youth-run NGO

Navaagat

On 3rd April 2018, Navaagat, a promising young non-profit NGO completely run by sophomore year
college students, launched their latest and probably most ambitious project till date - Project
Swachhta - that aims to beautify slums around the city. The project was executed by starting with
the Okhla industrial area slum in South Delhi by getting the appropriate permissions from the
dwellers. Team Navaagat painted the walls and cleaned the area around the slum. The plan was
simple, yet elegant: create a positive environment for the inhabitants by making the slums better
places to live in which will foster growth and motivate the people.

Apart from painting the slum and cleaning the streets, Team Navaagat planted saplings and installed
dustbins around the area to make the atmosphere healthy. This grandiose project attracted
enthusiastic volunteers from all across the city, including the Department of Management Studies,
Ramanujan College which also helped in backing the project. Also, the talented students from
Croydon – the fine Arts society of IP College for women painted beautiful graffiti over the walls
which really put a gem on the crown of Project Swachhta.

The day long project was just a beginning of a dream that was in the works since a long period of
time. The president of Navaagat and a student of Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies
(VIPS), Abhishek Jain said, “An environment conducive for living healthy is a fundamental need of
every human being. We realised that many people are not privileged enough to have access to the
same and Navaagat wanted to work in the direction.” This project aims to create large scale impact
by making a model of beautification and hygiene that can be applied to different slums worldwide.

Started in 2017 by sophomore year college students – Shreyansh Nahar, Kartik Jain, Abhishek Jain
and Bharat Daga, Navaagat’s motivated team of 15 works hard to implement solutions to the
problems plaguing our society. With a number of donation drives, educational workshops, events
for the underprivileged, awareness campaigns and collaborations with other NGOs already under
their belt, they aim to make a difference. The young but highly mature and competent people at
Navaagat come from various disciplines like management, commerce, economics, psychology and
engineering. Navaagat looks forward to working harder towards social welfare with an intense zeal
to create real impact.

You can check out more of their ground-breaking projects on their website: www.navaagat.org