Department of Environment honoured Green Diwali Campaign Winners

School News Network
Chandigarh, November 24 2020

To promote cracker free, pollution free and safe festival of Deepawali, this year the Department of Environment, Chandigarh Administration along with Yuvsatta-NGO organized an Inter-School Short Mobile Video Contest on theme of ‘My Green Diwali-My Green Pledge’, in which over 225 students and teachers from twenty prominent Schools of the city participated.

In a formal function with all COVID protocols at Paryavaran Bhawan, Sector 19, Sh. Debendra Dalai, CCF & Director, Department of Environment honoured the prize winning students and teachers.

Appreciating the whole-hearted participation of all the city residents in ‘Green Diwali Celebrations’, Sh. Debendra Dalai said that this year at PGI, just one burn case was reported in Chandigarh on Diwali night against 60 in the festival the previous year. And all the injuries were minor in nature and the victims were sent home after necessary treatment. Moreover, with Chandigarh saying no to crackers, the city saw its AQI at 140 on the day after the festival against 341 post last Diwali.

Mr. Dalai added that a day after the Diwali festival we used to see our area littered with trash of cracker boxes and empty bottles, but this year it was different and clean. Now, we all have to keep this momentum of maintaining a clean and green city alive.

The winners of the Inter-School Short Mobile Video Contest were as under;

BEST FIVE JUNIOR SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS (Class I-V): Gurleen Kaur, Gurukul Global School, Ms. Dhruvika Bhardwaj, Manav Mangal High School, Koushal, Saupin's School, Abhinandit Sharma, St. Stephen's Preparatory School and Akanksha of St. Joseph’s Sr. Secondary School, Chandigarh.

BEST FIVE SENIOR SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS (Class VI-XII): Shivam Vats, GMSSS, Sector 35D, Nistha Navya, KB DAV Sr. Sec. Public School, Anamay Tripathy, Manav Mangal High School, Aryan Kaushik, St. Joseph’s Sr. Sec. School and Angad, St. Johns High School, Chandigarh.

BEST FIVE TEACHERS: Mrs. Seema Rani, Principal, GMSSS, Dhanas, Mrs. Parveen Kumari, Eco Club Incharge, GGMSSS, Sector 20B, Mrs. Sheetal, Eco Club Incharge, GMSSS, Kaimbwala, Mrs. Swati and Mrs. Monica Gulati of  Manav Mangal High School, Chandigarh.

Pramod Sharma, Coordinator of Yuvsatta added that besides the merit certificates and memento’s the winners were also given cash prizes of rupees twenty five thousand rupees with rupees 1000/- each in junior category, rupees fifteen hundred each for senior and rupees twenty five hundred each for all teachers. Besides this Sh. Debendra Dalai also presented a special Award of Honour to Principal, Manav Mangal School for overall BEST PARTICIPATION of their School.