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The necessity of social awareness of different govt. policies has become very important nowadays. The awareness of these policies is mostly lacking among the people living below the poverty line who live in slum areas. They are deprived of various free facilities and services by the govt. due to lack of knowledge about those. One of the identifying characteristics of slums is the lack of or inadequate public infrastructure. From safe drinking water to electricity, from basic health care to police services, from affordable public transport to fire/ambulance services, from sanitation sewer to paved roads, slums usually lack all of these.    We were given a task on social awareness on any particular topic as a part of our behavioural science assessment. Our group decided to spread awareness of govt. policies in slum areas. As soon as our topic got approved, we (Kritika, Charchit, Bhawana, Srastha) went to our first awareness drive in Dana pani basti(located in Vidhyad...