Youth movement to promote constitution awareness among students
New Delhi: One of the country's growing youth movements is trying to educate school children about their fundamental duties and re-affirm their faith in the country's constitution post-Mumbai attacks. Fight-Back, a movement against gender violence and terrorism, represented India at the International Youth Movements Summit in 2008, and has tied up with 39 schools across the country to spread awareness about the constitution, the Mumbai-based organisation said in a release. The organisation is promoting awareness about the constitution, which it said is largely ignored by school children. It is urging them to become aware of their fundamental duties, rights and freedoms guaranteed by the national code of law. "The objective is to spread awareness about Article 51A of the constitution that pertains to fundamental duties," the Fight-Back release said. The duties stipulate that every citizen abides by the constitution and respect its ideals and institutions, the national ...