With growing concern over environmental issues like deforestation, pollution and usage of plastic, schoolchildren across the city are doing their bit towards the conservation of the environment. Conducting elocution contests, painting event based on environment as a theme and more, they are the young ambassadors for nature.
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Many schools have nature clubs and the students of these clubs segregate waste, avoid usage of plastic, and follow simple steps such as turning off the lights and fans when they are not in use. They are involved in field work such as testing water samples from Hussain Sagar before and after Ganesh immersion and conducting pollution checks on vehicles.
Yagnya, a Std. VIII student of P. Obul Reddy Public School, says, “We have a nature club in our school. We organised a few rallies to bring about awareness on issues concerning environment. We are planning to do vermicompost.”
Nidhi Mehra, a Std. VIII student of Sri Aurobindo International School has been an active participant of the environment-related initiatives taken up at her school.
"We organise cleanliness drives around our school campus. We are also associated with ITC's Wealth out of Waste (WOW) programme, wherein we are encouraged to segregate and recycle waste products.”
Anita Gupta, a teacher at Sherwood Public School, says that awareness is created among students through articles and charts about environmental issues. Bodies like Programme for Environmental Awareness among Schools (PEAS), are aiming at creating awareness among school children about environment and their responsibility towards it.
