November 14th is celebrated as National Children’s Day in India. Children are the future citizens of any nation and thus they should have a strong foundation of Knowledge & Awareness, which will help in building proper attitude towards life and society.
Paryavaran Mitra has taken a different approach to celebrate Children’s Day this year and a presentation prepared for the general Environmental Awareness of kids has been made for this purpose. PM aimed at inculcating a sense of responsibility in side the future citizens of India.
Pryavaran Mitra - Kolkata Parivar has arranged an Awareness Program at Maheshtala High School (HS), situated at Maheshtala, Kolkata 700141 near the new Warehouse of BEL-Kolkata.
The school has recently celebrated its 150th anniversary and is also a famous school of this locality. Nearly 1500 students (5th standard – 12th standard) get education from this institute.
PM has arranged for an audio visual presentation and subsequent discussion on environmental issues for the students of standard 7th – 9th. About 400 students watched the PM Bengali Audio Visual and also the Presentation (We Can We Will – Bengali version). Moreover the presentation on Waste
Management prepared by Stree Mukti Sanghatana was also shown to give the students an idea of Waste Management.
The Program Started after lunch time. Mr Jayanta Ghosh, the Headmaster of the school and Assistant Teachers were present. Few Managers and employees from Baja Electricals Ltd also took active participation in the program. Paryavaran Mitra thankfully acknowledges the participation of:
- Mr. Sanjay Jha – BSSM, Kolkata
- Mr. Snehasis Sengupta – RCCM, East
- Mr. Abhimanyu A. Gauri – AM, MR
- Mr. Chitrak Sardar – TSI, Lum
- Mr. Sanjeev Kumar – Logistics
- Mr. Gourav Mukherjee
- Mr. Bishwajeet
- Ms. Sanghamitra Sinharay
Mr. Sengupta & Mr. Jha also addressed the students a delivered short speech on children can take initiatives for Environmental Improvement.
Ms. Sanghamitra Sinharay, PM Coordiantor East, introduced Paryavaran Mitra and also stated, in simple language, the objective of the organization.
She elaborated the theme of “We Can We Will’ in the context of present environmental scenario. After the Presentation, students saw the PM audio visual show.
PM Coordinator also advocated and inspired students to start waste management system in school with simple methodologies by showing them another audio visual on Waste Management
.At the end of the Program students took Oath to ‘Be A Paryavaran Mitra and Try to Improve Environment to the Best of Their Ability.
Due to shortage of space we have repeated this half an hour program thrice with students of class 7, 8 & 9 separately.
Class 9 students, at the end of the awareness program, took the oath to improve their school environment. They were then asked to come forward voluntarily to take part in School Cleaning Drive. Many students shown keen interest but ultimately 14 students were selected for the activity.
Volunteers themselves selected the place for the activity. Accordingly PM Coordinator and other representatives along with the student volunteers went to the Play ground which was found to be very dirty. The entire field was cluttered with plastic and paper packets. Three Broomstick, Two Boxes (Used Cartons of BEL) and used Cement bags were taken to clean the field and collect the waste.
In one and a half hours time volunteers have collected all the plastic and paper packets separately, swept the entire field with broom stick and gathered the dry leaves at one corner of the field. They have collected two boxful and five bagsful of wastes.
Students also identified the reason of the problem. They said that students mostly bring fast food or biscuit or chips packets; many also buy food from local vendors, which also come in plastic or paper packets. There was no waste bin near the field, where student come to take their food.
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The volunteers were asked to keep the two card board boxes in the field, one for plastics and non biodegradable and one for papers and biodegradable wastes. These waste bins can then be put in the garbage vat later on by the school cleaning staffs.
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They were also advised to set up a compost pit at the backyard and produce manure from the organic waste.
They were also shown keen interest to make their fellow students aware about doing such cleaning activity and mostly keeping the school clean.
The Headmaster congratulated the students and thanked Paryavaran Mitra for doing such activity, He also asked students to follow all the cleanliness and eco friendly habits.
Name of the Volunteers (Students of class 9):
- Sanju Chatterjee
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- Sarthak Paul
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- Prem Kr Shaw
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- Abhishek Biswas
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- Milon Rana
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- Bikram Shaw
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- Arpan Ghosh
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- Sandip Malick
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- Baabuya Molla
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- Raju Shaw
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- Subhasis Barua
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- Abhijit Naska
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- Akash Chatterjee
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- Sk. Sarowar
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