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What is resource centre for a tobacco free India?
VHAI’s Resource Centre for Tobacco Free India (RCTFI) is a unique initiative to establish an exclusive, one–of-its-kind website on all tobacco information related to India. The resource centre is a part of VHAI’s Partnership against Tobacco (PAT) & Action for Policies, Politics, Legislation and Empowerment (APPLE) Project that will build a strong, rooted and participatory campaign for tobacco control in co-ordination with other BGI funded organizations in India.
The main objectives of the website is to use VHAI’s strong base and experience of anti-tobacco campaigns and its state level networks to support the tobacco control campaigns across the project states of Assam, Delhi, Rajasthan, Kerala , Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Meghalaya & Sikkim.
VHAI PAT & APPLE PROJECT involves a process of hard hitting campaign programme through policy advocacy at the national and state levels, collation-building and networking with like minded groups, government agencies and law enforcers working on tobacco control; capacity building of VHAI network, and to monitor and account for legislative violations at district and central level.
Objective & Purpose of the website
- To support a strong anti-tobacco lobby in India to combat the complex tobacco crisis.
- To create an information network across the nation that helps knowledge sharing through latest updates of news and activities.
- To disseminate information about the existing laws on tobacco and the violations that take place at the policy and grassroot levels.
- To promote a participatory network that is strengthened through regular sharing, helping the non smokers voice their opinion.
- To create a BGI-funded state wise database that contains uploaded reports and photographs of the work done by the VHAI and its state partner. Along with detailed account of the authorities working on tobacco control in a particular state.
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