Mind & Manas

Growing up informed, confident and safe.

Mind & Manas is a drug awareness and prevention programme run by the Narcotics Control Bureau in CBSE schools, under the MoU signed on 3 September 2025. Students, teachers and parents are all welcome here.

1,891Schools already part of the programme
40Districts they are in
2States and union territories

Who it's for

Three audiences, and something made for each.

Open the app, tell it whether you are a student, a teacher or a parent, and you will see the material made for you.

Students

Learning through a story

Three story chapters that put the learner inside the decision. You follow a character to the moment of choice, choose for them, and see where the choice leads. Confidence built by doing.

  • The Big Choice
  • The Real Story
  • Strong Choices, Safe Life

Teachers

For the adult in the room

Five professional development chapters that use the real specialist vocabulary, glossed as they go. Recognising early signs, responding calmly, and knowing when to refer.

  • Decode Addiction
  • Life Skills for Prevention
  • Do's & Don'ts for Teachers

Parents

The conversation at home

Short and practical, finishable in a few minutes on a phone. Written to stand beside any parent, whether the conversation at home comes easily or takes work.

  • The Power of Home
  • Know What Is Out There
  • The Home That Protects

What we are here to do

Prevention begins with awareness, conversation and early intervention.

Mind & Manas works to reach students early, while a choice is still a question rather than a habit, and to bring schools, teachers, parents and specialists into the same conversation.

Vision

A drug free, healthier and happier generation, where every student has the knowledge, awareness and confidence to make informed choices.

Mission

To reach students across schools with age appropriate education and preventive work, to strengthen the part, schools, teachers and families play in prevention, and to build an environment where every child can grow and thrive.

The goal is simple: reach every student, protect young minds, and help build a healthier, happier and drug free generation.

  1. Reach every student
  2. Create awareness
  3. Build resilience
  4. Prevent addiction
  5. Empower a healthier generation

The app

Everything you need, already on the phone.

One app carries all eleven chapters to students, teachers and parents, and a web console shows the programme where it has reached. Built and run by Zoho.

Nothing to set up

The first chapter starts on the first tap. Link your school whenever it suits you, and every step you have already finished comes with you.

We ask for almost nothing

A student is a school code and a number the school issued. No name, no phone number, no address, no photograph. What a learner taps inside a chapter stays on the phone.

Made for a phone the family shares

Several learners on one device, each with their own progress, and teacher material kept behind a passphrase.

Checked by specialists first

Specialists at T.T.K Hospital approve each chapter on a working build, seeing exactly what a student will see, before it is released.

Help one tap away

1933, the MANAS Helpline, is free, open 24 hours, and reachable from the first screen without opening a single chapter.

Who is behind it

Five organisations, one programme.

Narcotics Control Bureau, India Narcotics Control Bureau

Runs the programme and works directly with CBSE schools in Tamil Nadu & Puducherry.

Central Board of Secondary Education Central Board of Secondary Education

Signed the MoU of 3 September 2025. The programme runs in its schools.

T T Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation T.T.K Hospital

Writes and approves the evidence-based curriculum. Decades of treatment and recovery practice behind every chapter.

Vimi Magic Vimi Magic Partner

Takes the programme to schools on the ground, and runs the events and distribution.

Zoho Zoho

Builds, hosts and runs the mobile and web applications.