The facility was made functional last year at the Juvenile Justice Board's Sewa Kutir complex here on the orders of the Delhi High Court.
Justices Altamas Kabir and Dipak Misra, Judges of the Supreme Court and Acting Chief Justice of the High Court Justice A K Sikri attended the anniversary celebrations yesterday and encouraged the children to shun drugs and enter the mainstream with a newfound vigour.
Justice Altamas Kabir termed Sahyog a "success story", while Justice Misra and Acting Chief Justice Sikri encouraged children to engage themselves in vocational activities to stay away from drugs.
On the occasion, Zeenat, the chairperson of NGO Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses (SPYM), which works for children's drug rehabilitation, stressed on the need to ban Gutka. She said it was a gateway of drug addiction and potential for addiction to other substances.
She also advocated the need for "providing necessary information about harmful effects of drugs to children, especially in government-run and MCD schools, adding that 90 per cent of the children were in schools when they start using abusive substances and then committed crimes to sustain their drug dependence."
Zeenat also asked the government to provide services for plastic surgery of the scars left by self harm during drug intoxication to reduce the stigma and discrimination in the community, systemised and smooth re-entry of children into the formal school systems after completion of their treatment, 'sarva shiksha abhayan' services at Sahyog and employment opportunities for juveniles after recovery.