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Every name on the list gets called.

Model United Nations arrived in India's big cities decades ago and mostly stayed there. MUN India takes the real thing, real UN committees under real UN rules of procedure, to the schools and towns that were never on anybody's circuit.

Roll call of the towns MI/RC/1

    0 names called in this session. In a real UN roll call every member state answers, not just the ones with the loudest delegations.

    Item 1 · The case

    A debate you
    never heard of
    can't change
    your mind.

    Ask a Class 9 student in a district town what the Security Council does and you will often get an honest shrug. Ask the same student to argue why their country should get water from a shared river, and they will do it for twenty minutes without stopping. The ability was never the missing part.

    What is missing is the room. Model UN is a room where a fifteen year old is handed a country, a set of rules, and 193 reasons to be precise. It teaches research before opinion, listening before speaking, and the specific discipline of writing something other people are willing to sign.

    That room has been unevenly distributed. It tends to appear where there are already fee heavy conferences, travel budgets, and a decade of alumni to run them. Where those do not exist, the assumption is usually that the interest does not either, which anybody who has watched a first time delegate from a small town take the floor knows is exactly backwards.

    MUN India exists to close that distance. We run conferences, build school chapters, and train delegates and faculty across the country, with a deliberate bias toward the places the circuit skipped. We keep the standard high and the door wide, because a delegate's first conference should not depend on their pin code.

    Did you know


    Item 2 · What we run

    Four ways a school enters the room.

    Start with one conference or build a permanent chapter. Everything below runs on the same rules of procedure, so a delegate trained in one place can walk into any of the others and know exactly what is happening.

    MI/01 · Conferences

    India MUN Conferences

    Our own conferences, hosted in and around the towns we serve, so attending does not require a train ticket and three nights in a metro hotel.

    • Real UN bodies only: General Assembly, ECOSOC, UNEP, UNHRC, Security Council
    • Two day and single day formats built for first time delegates
    • Background guides written for students reading them alone
    • Awards recognise consensus building, not volume
    MI/02 · Training

    Delegate Training

    Online sessions that take a student from "I have never spoken in front of a class" to a confident opening speech, in groups small enough that everybody gets the floor.

    • Research: finding a country's actual position, not guessing it
    • Speaking: the sixty second opening, the rebuttal, the yield
    • Writing: position papers, working papers, amendments, operative clauses
    • Practice committees run end to end, with written feedback
    MI/03 · Chapters

    School MUN Chapters

    A standing MUN club in your school, with the structure that usually takes three or four years of trial and error to work out.

    • Club charter, roles, and a term long meeting plan
    • Executive board training for your senior students
    • Intra school committee kits your teachers can run
    • A path from first meeting to hosting your own conference
    MI/04 · Open library

    The Delegate's Shelf

    Everything we teach, written down and free to download, because a student without a chapter should still be able to prepare properly.

    • Rules of procedure in plain English and Hindi
    • Position paper and draft resolution templates
    • Country research checklist with primary sources
    • Committee glossary, from adjourn to yield

    Item 3 · Inside a session

    This is what the next two days feel like.

    Follow a committee from the first "present" to the gavel. Click through. It is the same sequence at every MUN India conference, and very close to the sequence used at UN Headquarters.

    Item 4 · Try it now

    Write your first operative clause.

    Resolutions are not essays. They are one long sentence built from clauses, and every clause follows a fixed shape. Change the parts below and watch the document rewrite itself. This is genuinely all there is to it.

    A/RES/MI/1Draft resolution
    The General Assembly,

    1.
    Copied Preambular clauses end in a comma. Operative clauses are numbered and end in a semicolon, or a full stop if it is the last one.

    Item 5 · The standard

    We simulate the United Nations. Only the United Nations.

    Somewhere along the way, parts of the circuit started inventing councils that do not exist, cabinets borrowed from films, and crises written for entertainment. They are fun. They are also the reason some students spend three years doing MUN and never learn how a resolution is actually adopted.

    Every MUN India committee is a body that genuinely sits at the UN, debating an item genuinely on its agenda, under either UN4MUN or UNA-USA rules of procedure. Nothing invented, nothing fictional, nothing that would confuse a delegate the moment they walk into a conference somewhere else.

    Fictional committees

    Real bodies, real mandates

    The General Assembly and its main committees, ECOSOC, UNEP, UNHRC, the Security Council, UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, the Commission on the Status of Women. If it does not have a seat at the UN, it does not get a committee here.

    Invented crises

    Agenda items that exist

    Topics are drawn from what these bodies are actually seized of. A delegate's research leads to real resolutions, real reports and real national positions they can cite by document number.

    UN4MUN and UNA-USA

    One set of rules, learned properly

    UN4MUN follows the UN's own practice, including working toward consensus. UNA-USA is the widely used conference standard. We run these, we teach these, and we tell you which one you are in before you walk in.

    Item 6 · The agenda

    Seventeen goals. Every one of them is somebody's committee.

    In 2015 all 193 member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. Pick one and see which UN body carries it, and the kind of agenda item a MUN India committee would debate under it.

    Item 7 · Phrasebook

    Nine things delegates say, translated.

    Committee has its own language. It sounds intimidating from outside and takes about an hour to learn from inside. Tap any line to see what it actually means.

    1:30

    Ninety seconds is shorter than you think.

    That is a standard speaking slot. Press start, read the prompt, and say something useful before the gavel. Most delegates find their second attempt is twice as good as their first.

    Press start and you will be given a country and a question.

    Item 8 · For principals and counsellors

    The practical questions, answered plainly.

    Written for the person who has to approve this, find the hall, and explain it to parents.

    Our students have never done this. Is that a problem?

    It is the norm, not the exception. Every delegate at their first conference is a first time delegate, including the ones who look composed. Our conferences hold beginner committees where the chair explains each step as it happens, and our training assumes zero prior knowledge. A school can go from no MUN at all to a full delegation inside a single term.

    How good does a student's English have to be?

    Good enough to make a point, which is a much lower bar than fluent. Committee rewards a clear argument over an elaborate one, and our chairs are trained to hear content through accent and hesitation. Preparation and one to one support are available in regional languages, and background guides are written in plain English so a student can read them without a dictionary at their elbow.

    What does it cost, and what if we cannot manage it?

    Fees are kept deliberately low and are published before registration opens, with nothing added later. Access to MUN India programs is not limited by a school's or a family's ability to pay. If cost is what stands between a student and a seat, tell us at registration and we will sort it out quietly, without the student being told they are a special case.

    How much school time does this actually take?

    A conference is one or two days. Preparation is roughly six to eight hours per delegate, most of which is research they can do at home. If you would rather it lived inside the timetable, our curriculum modules are built for standard forty minute periods and map onto Social Science, Civics and English outcomes you are already teaching.

    What do students walk away with?

    Concretely: a certificate, a written position paper, and a resolution with their name on it. Practically: the ability to research a position they did not pick, speak to a room without notes, disagree with someone and keep negotiating anyway, and write something precise enough that other people will sign it. Those show up in board exams, interviews and applications. Mostly they show up in how the student carries themselves in the next assembly.

    We are in a small town. Will you actually come?

    That is the entire point of MUN India. Tier 2, tier 3 and tier 4 towns are not the hard cases we take on reluctantly. They are where the organisation was pointed from day one. Tell us your district and we will tell you the nearest conference, or what it would take to host one at your school.

    Do you use standard rules, or your own?

    Standard, always: UN4MUN or UNA-USA rules of procedure, stated clearly for each committee. We do not run fictional committees or invented crisis simulations. A delegate trained with us can walk into any established conference in the country and recognise every motion on the floor.

    Item 9 · Start

    Put your town on the roll call.

    Tell us where you are and what you are trying to start. A person reads every one of these, usually within three working days, and replies with the nearest conference, the next training date, or a plan for hosting at your school.

    Did you know

    India has been elected to the UN Security Council eight times as a non permanent member, most recently for 2021 and 2022, without ever holding a permanent seat. Eight times, argued for and won, each time from the floor.

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