MY Bharat-NSS Diwali Sneh Milan Covers 153 Institutions

MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme held Diwali Sneh Milan gatherings across the country to press the case for a festive season free of intoxicants. The programme ran at 153 institutions and drew 1,07,494 participations. It was the eighth weekly intervention under the Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat 100 Week Sankalp Abhiyan and closed the second month of that campaign, as the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports reported on 9 November 2026.

What the gatherings did

The idea was to carry the message of substance abuse prevention out of classrooms and into homes and neighbourhoods, so that families and communities share the responsibility for the choices young people make. Volunteers, community elders and children lit earthen lamps under a Nasha Mukt Deepotsav, presented as light defeating the darkness of addiction. Together the Deepotsav and the Sneh Milan gatherings engaged more than 41,600 participants.

• Street plays in regional languages, rangoli making and Nasha Mukt songs engaged over 24,100 participants.
• Close to 25,000 people and family members took the Addiction-Free Diwali Sankalp, a collective pledge to keep the festival free of intoxicants.
• Under the Seva vertical, over 16,700 volunteers went to old-age homes, orphanages, hospitals and slum areas with lamps and sweets.
• More than 1,100 social media posts and reels, featuring the street plays, were put up on Instagram with the hashtag NashaMuktYuva.

Figures at a glance

The National Service Scheme works to the motto Not Me, But You, and the service work during the festival was placed within that idea. Activities at the institutions that were on vacation are to be held once the break is over. For an examination, the facts worth noting are the name of the campaign and its length in weeks, the name given to the Diwali programme, the ministry running it, the number of institutions and participations, and the NSS motto.