"Change starts with a single action. What will yours be?"
You cannot advocate for a right you don't exercise yourself. Start with your own sleep â not as a luxury or indulgence, but as a health imperative and a political act.
Treat your sleep window like a meeting you cannot cancel. Even 7 nights of consistent timing measurably improves sleep quality.
Move your charger outside the bedroom. This single change is the highest-impact sleep intervention most people can make immediately.
Push back when someone brags about 4-hour nights. Celebrate rest. Normalise going to bed early. Culture changes one conversation at a time.
Share Right2Sleep with five people who need to hear this message. Follow us on social media. Sign our petition for later school start times.
We're collecting signatures for a petition to the Ministry of Education demanding later school start times in all CBSE and state board schools. Every signature matters.
Sign the PetitionStudents have successfully campaigned for later school start times, sleep education in curriculum, and phone policies that protect sleep. You have more power than you think.
Read the science. Visit our Youth Hub to understand the biology. You'll be a more effective advocate when you can cite the evidence.
Sleep deprivation is so normalised among teens that many don't realise they're suffering from it. Share what you've learned. Start conversations.
Talk to a teacher you trust, the school counsellor, or your student council. Ask for a formal discussion on school start times or a sleep education session.
Connect with students across India and globally who are working on the same cause. We'll provide toolkits, mentorship, and amplification for your efforts.
We're building a network of trained student advocates in schools across India. Participants receive:
Sleep-deprived employees cost companies in absenteeism, errors, poor decision-making, and turnover. Sleep-friendly workplaces are not charity â they're strategy.
Organisations that sign the pledge commit to a set of evidence-based practices and receive the Right2Sleep Employer Seal â a public recognition of their commitment.
No expectation of response to work communications between 8 PM and 7 AM or on weekends unless there is a genuine emergency.
Protect the morning sleep hours by scheduling no meetings before 9 AM, allowing employees with longer commutes adequate rest.
Provide a quiet rest room where employees can take short recovery rests. Companies like Google and Nike have documented productivity gains from this.
Annual sleep awareness session for all employees, and manager training to identify and support sleep-deprived team members.
Ensure all employees take their full entitled leave. No carry-forward culture that implicitly penalises rest.
Sleep is a public health issue. It deserves the same policy attention as nutrition, tobacco, and physical activity. Here is where Right2Sleep is directing its advocacy energy:
India needs a dedicated National Sleep Health Policy with measurable targets, cross-ministry ownership, and funding â similar to the National Nutrition Mission.
A national directive from the Ministry of Education requiring secondary schools to start no earlier than 8:30 AM, with phased implementation over 3 years.
Legal right for employees to not respond to work communications outside work hours â following the lead of France, Belgium, and Portugal.
Investment in noise monitoring infrastructure and stricter enforcement of existing nighttime noise limits in residential areas.
Dedicated ICMR funding for Indian sleep research â currently almost entirely absent compared to global spending on sleep science.
Right2Sleep provides MPs, MLAs, and councillors with research briefs, constituency-level impact data, and draft bill language on sleep-related policy.
We can also facilitate expert briefings with leading sleep scientists for committees and working groups.
Request a Policy Brief| Country | Policy | Result |
|---|---|---|
| ðšðļ USA (California) | Later school start law (2019) | â Attendance, â accidents |
| ðŦð· France | Right to Disconnect (2017) | â Burnout rates |
| ð§ðŠ Belgium | Right to Disconnect (2022) | â Employee wellbeing |
| ðļðŽ Singapore | Workplace Sleep Programme | â Healthcare costs |