Thesis (Jan-2019 to June-2019)
Drug Rehabilitation and Community Centre
The thesis aims to create an intoxicated and educative environment to help in the upliftment of the resettlement society of Tilak Vihar Delhi affected by the Sikh riots of 1984. Also creating a memorial to link the past to the present.
Objectives:
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To study the current infrastructure facility.
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Understanding the present status of society.
Sikh Massacre
The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh Massacre, was a series of organized pogroms against Sikhs in India in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.The then rul- ing party, Indian National Congress had been in active complicity with the mob, as to the organization of the riots.Independent sources esti- mate the number of deaths at about 8,000–17,000whilst government estimates project that about 2,800 Sikhs were killed in Delhi and 3,350 nationwide.
1984 Anti- Sikh Riots
The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh Massacre, was a series of organized pogroms against Sikhs in India in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.The then rul- ing party, Indian National Congress had been in active complicity with the mob, as to the organization of the riots.Independent sources esti- mate the number of deaths at about 8,000–17,000whilst government estimates project that about 2,800 Sikhs were killed in Delhi and 3,350 nationwide.
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Site
The Widow Society
Source:discoversikhism.com
“The Widow Colony — India’s Unsettled Settlement”, borrows its name from the settlement in Tilak Vihar, on the west-side of New Delhi, which is locally called the Widow.
Generation 1984
Source:outlookindia.com
Widow Society Tilak Vihar, DELHI
Colony or Vidhva (Widow) Colony. The film takes the viewer to the streets of Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri, Himatpuri, Sultanpuri and Mongolpuri, the same localities that suffered the major brunt of the Sikh killings in November of 1984.
Tilak Vihar in New Delhi is a neighbourhood no different from other middle-class localities of the Indian capital: narrow lanes, lined with small dilapidated houses on either side, that slice through the colony with children scampering about in joyful abandonment, unmindful of the garbage piles on some street corners.
Source:discoversikhism.com
Delhi: A third of street kids use drugs, alcohol
NEW DELHI: One in every three street children in Delhi indulges in substance abuse, including tobac- co, alcohol and cannabis. A study by AIIMS has now put a number to this well knowm problem
The study has found that 29% of respondents took to drugs under peer pressure, 19% out of curiosity, 16% to experience a high and 9% to deal with vari- ous stresses and difficulties
Some interesting facts reveled in the survey are as follows:
Around 70,000 street children are in the habit of consuming drugs in any form.
20,000 consume tobacco.
Around 10,000 children are into alcohol consump- tion.
7000 children are consuming inhalants.
5600 children are in the habit of taking cannabis. Around 800 are addictive to heroin.
There are few who are addictive to pharmaceutical opioid and
sedatives..
Assessment of Pattern and Profile of Substance Use among Children in Delhi
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
About 50% children responded that they did not have access to resources (external) for healthy recreational interests. More than 70% children were notin any contact with an NGO,only a small proportion (7.8%) was in daily contact with an NGO
More than two third children reported that they did know where to get health ser- vices if they needed help while one third did not know. About half the children said that they knew how to get help if they were upset.
The following chart shows the prevalence of different substances used by the children. As can be seen, a majority of respondents reported using a variety of substances ‘ever’ in their lives. Apart from legal substances(tobacco, alcohol, and inhalants), cannabis, non-prescription sedatives and use by injectable route were reported by a large proportion Tobacco and alcohol
MAIN FOCUS OF THE PROJECT
A 6-acre park will be developed at Tilak Vihar
The board also decided to engage professional agencies to maintain all the 414 Shishu Vatikas, primary schools for girls, in these clusters
Besides, it also gave a nod to the proposal to establish open gyms in all the Shishu Vatikas.
RAJIV GANDHI AWAS YOJNA
The Delhi government has approved basic amenities infrastructure projects at slum clusters across the Capital on Friday. The development comes days after the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced to speed up the develometal work in all unauthorised colonies of the city.
The decision was taken during the 22nd board meeting of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIIB), chaired by CM Kejriwal, who also holds the position of the board’s chairperson.
The board decided to prepare a consolidated estimation for the completion of construction
and repair work of pavements and drains in all the 750 JJ clusters in the Capital.
Challenging
RAJIV GANDHI AWAS YOJNA DELHI TILAK VIHAR
Does
Tilak Vihar needs
more primary schools?
Tilak vihar already having six government schools existing under 2km radius also looking at the present condition of children under tilak vihar a special school is required for the reviving the children from drug addiction also to take them into a normal condition in perusing a normal life!
‘‘Many widows who survived lost their sons to drugs, alcoholism, Hopelessness.They can’t stop seeing themselves as responsible.’’
The homes in Tilak Vihar were part of the compensation awarded by the government tothe widows who survived. The colony has houses constructed over an identical 50 sq yard area each.
But with structures added haphazardly to accommodate growing families. There are other indicators of a colony that sprang up hastily — the clogged, uncovered drains, the unauthorized electricity connections, the power lines hanging dangerously low, the uncollected garbage, and the flies.
User Research
There are many such stories in Tilak Vihar, of young men who never finished school, who idled as mothers went
to work to lowly paid government jobs or did the rounds
of courts, commissions and the media, and who became addicted to drugs or alcohol. Most young survivors grew up to become auto drivers.
Gurudwara shaheed ganj Tilak vihar, Delhi
It is in this gurudwara that most of the Sikh families in the Widow Colony congregate. On many given day, the congregation is comprised of roughly eighty percent women and twenty percent men.
Grief: That’s the writing on the wall
Gurudwara shaheed ganj Tilak vihar, Delhi
The gurudwara consist of a room containg the photographs of thousands of Sikhs killed in the carnage and people from other communities who laid down their lives trying to save them etched on its walls.
“Reminder of injustice”
Need of a better Memorial
To link the past to the present and enable people to remember and respect the sacrifice of those who died,fought, participated or were affected by conflict. Memorials can be an important source of information for young people in understanding the sacrifices.
The need to make additions to existing memorials thereby ensuring the continuing relevance of the existing memorials for local remembrance.
The NGO Nishkam Sikh Welfare Council
Nishkam provides subsidized medical services, offered by general physicians and specialists such as ophthalmologists, dentists and gynaecologists, as well as an in-house pharmacy diagnostic testing, and a basic operation theatre for simple medical procedures. They also hold various educational initiatives in their Tilak Vihar site, such as shorthand and typing classes,107 music classes, computer training.
Statistical Data Tilak vihar, Delhi
Widows 13%
Females 19 and above 15%
Males 19 and above 35%
Females 18 and below 22%
Males 18 and below 25%
Total population 5776
Total number of houses 944
About 70 per cent of the residents in Tilak Vihar are now
“original riot victims”, other residents are close relatives.
Case Studies
SPYM Delhi
The center began operations in October 2010 and was formally inaugurated on 20 April 2011. Setup to address growing drug addiction among children and juveniles in New Delhi who frequently broke the law, the 90-day residential center offers round-the-clock service. This includes providing primary treatment support, as well as rehabilitation and reintegration with the help of their families and the community.
The SPYM-operated center has a vision and a mission which have guided its operations right since its inception. SPYM is a national organization with a countrywide network, working in the area of community mobilization, health care and socio-economic development since last three decades.
Learnings
SPYM provide primary learning to the children which is divided under 3 categories
Literate
Semi-Literate
Illiterate
Also have a separate divisions per the level of thestudent. Also SPYM provides a special library for there students with different level of understanding
Also using digital medium to provide interactive wayof learning and understanding. SPYM is also using some special techniques including talking pens to make learning more fun
Muktangan Pune
Late Dr. Anita Awachat and Dr. Anil Awachat founded Muktangan Rehabilitation Center on August 29th, 1986. Today, it has achieved the status of being one of the best institutes in the field of Drugs & Alcohol de-addiction and is the only institute with ISO 9001:2008 certification. Muktangan has a capacity to cater to over 120 residential clients. Its treatment module is of 30 days residential stay and on completion of the same, there is a regular follow up, for which the center has a strong network of follow up centers all over Maharashtra. Every year over 1200 clients take residential treatment at Muktangan Rehabilitation Center and over & above many clients facilitate from the Out Patient Department at our center located in Yerawada, Pune.
Addicts are provided with a common dormitory and a storage space.
They are required to maintain the discipline and taking care of their beds and belongings at their own.
Amphitheater is the major attraction of the rehab which act as a multipurpose area for fictions as well as as a recreational space.
It also act as a common meeting place and a space for the physical training.
How to uplift the widow's colony?
How to uplift the widow's colony?
The widow's colony is needed to be uplifted within all perspective towards a better living.
To create an intoxicated and educative environment to help the upliftment of society. also creating a memorial to link the past to the present.
Learn
Creating better learning environment by better classroom facilities and also with the integration of the digital mediums for the better experience of learning.
To create a intoxicated and educative environment to help the up liftment of the society. also creating a memorial to link the past to the present.
3L
Life skills
It includes:
Self Care
Health / Hygiene
Art and Craft
Conversation skills Behavior With the Opp Sex
Literature
Life Skills Providing library for the different groups of student that include:
Literate
Semi literate
Illiterate
Aim
To study the current infrastructure facility.
Understanding the present status of society.
Also understanding the link of the past incidences with the present living condition.
To Analise the quality of open spaces.
To provide suitable learning spaces.
To better identity to the society by adaptive reuse of the existing monument.
Objectives
Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. Scholars have found meditation difficult to define, as practices vary both between traditions and within them.
In addition to providing emotion regulation benefits and improving the areas of the brain that relate to the impaired self control, mindfulness-based meditation practice is offer patients greater awareness of environmental cues and the
internal phenomena of craving that can be respon- sible for triggering relapse. By providing mind- fulness as a holistic, total-wellness approach to addiction treatment.
MEDITATION AS A CONTINUUM OF CARE IN REHAB CENTER
Meditation Center
The Sikh Perspective of Meditation
Meditation or concentrating on His Name are one and the same thing in the Sikh perspective. ‘Name’ occupies the central place in religious practice so much so that without ‘Name’ one can’t think of a faith. The manner in which ‘Name’ or ‘Naam’ is held as the highest means of attaining God in Oriental thinking is not done in Occidental practices. If there is a means of Divine attainment in the western faith, it has not been given a name. In the Indian religion, when one embraces the Vaishnav faith one is required to imbibe five practices, one of which is the recitation of Name.
Placement of Khanda in the meditation center
Khanda being the symbol of Sikh religion is placed at the center of the mediation center. To create the ambiance according to the Sikh religion.
Platform for Gurbani
A platform for performing Gurbani is also provided, as it is considered as the form of meditation in Sikh religion
CASE STUDY
MATRI MANDIR
At the very centre of Auroville one finds the ‘soul of the city’, the Matrimandir, sit- uated in a large open area called ‘Peace’, from where the future township will ra- diate outwards. The atmosphere is quiet and charged, and the area beautiful, even though work continues in the Gardens.
The Mandir looked like a lotus in full bloom emerging from twelve large ‘pet- als’. This model defined the layout and contouring of this island with its twelve gardens, the banyan tree, the Amphithe- atre, etc. This model depicts the Matri- mandir Island as having the same oval shape as Matrimandir’s vertical section but ten times larger (360m x 290m)
Derivation of form
The shape of the meditation center is derived by taking inspiration from the Hemkund and Sheeshewala Gurudwara. To make it more prominent with religious content.
Ratios and dimensions
The ratios and dimensions have been taken from the Matri Mandir.
Memorial
Slope towards the Memorial
The memorial is designed as the centre point of the three-axes of the site with the inscription of the power of Sikh community on the pathways this is done to bifurcate the memorial from the rest of the site also making it as a major attraction of the site
Memorial
The memorial is given at the center of the site at a depth of -2.5 m from the ground level
Meditation center
Meditation center is given a visual axis from all the parts of the site and is placed +2.5m above the memorial .
Rehab and employment center
Rehab and employment center is provided at the alternate sides of the site to create a required privacy for the functions
receptively.
Plan
Internal Axis
The internal axis of the site is allowing
all the functions to be integrated with the required bifurcation or privacy required by the retrospective function.
also axis is the major role in creating visual connectivity also the aesthetic element for the site.
Major and Minor axis
The site is again divided in major and minor axis to provide better circulation in the site also obstructing the unrequired movement towards the functions.
3D Views
