Social initiatives

Kiran Bedi along with 15 other police officers set up Navjyoti India Foundation NIF in 1987,NIF started with a deaddiction and rehabilitation initiative for the drug addicts and now the organization has expanded to other social issue like illiteracy and women empowerment.In 1994 Bedi setup India Vision Foundation which works in field of police reforms, prison reforms, women empowerment and rural and community development.Her efforts have won national and international recognition, and her organizations were awarded the Serge Soitiroff Memorial Award for drug abuse prevention by the United Nations.After retirement, Kiran Bedi launched a new website saferindia. The goal of this website was to help people whose complaints are not accepted by the local police.