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India carries the highest burden of

diabetes with escalating prevalence in both urban

and rural populations. India’s diabetes burden

has more than doubled between 1990 and 2016,

with the total number of cases going up from 26

million to 65 million. In rural areas, the

prevalence is approximately 3 per cent of the

total population. The population of India is now

more than 1000 million: this helps to give an idea

of the scale of the problem.

As India has become modernised, the

sedentary lifestyle favoured by western people

has infiltrated indian culture, leading to people

eating more and exercising less. Frequent

consumption of high-fat food like hamburgers,

fried chicken and colas leads to child obesity and

other health risks including diabetes. Creating

awareness is the need of the hour in curbing the

rising epidemic.

our students of 11 std were oriented into

the programme .More than 400 students were

involved in arranging talk by diabetologist,

taking photos, interacting with doctors, collecting

information on various aspects of diabetes from

newspaper, magazines and internet, interacting

with patients and preparing case studies and

survey and analysis.

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