Environment was talk of the town

Enviromentalists in Sector 25

The Department of Adult Continuing Education, in collaboration with the NSS department, Panjab University, celebrated World Environment Day at Labour colony, Sector-25. A large number of social workers, community leaders and environmentalists took part in the celebrations.

Essay writing competition

The State Institute of Education organised essay writing and poster making competitions on the occasion. The results of the essay writing competition in the order of merit are as follows – Hari Raj Swaroop of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector-27, Anupma Suri, S. N. Senior Secondary School, Sector-22 D. Poster Making competition – R. P. Verma, G. M. Senior Secondary school, Sector-19 C, Meenu Gupta, G.H.S, Sector 11, Gurmeet Kaur, G.M.H.S. Sector 38 D, Kanwal Pal Singh, G.M.S., Sector 38- D.

`Plant more trees’

The Children Alliance for Protection of the Environment organised rallies in Sectors 11, 14, 15 and 16 to spread the message of planting more trees. Slogans like "Trees are lungs of the city” and "Plant more trees to lower city temperature” were written on the placards they carried with them.

Exhibition of paintings

The Green Club of the Central Crafts Institute also put up an exhibition of paintings which was inaugurated by Dr R. K. Jain, Director, Technical Education of the UT Administration. Later, a rally of nearly 300 students was also flagged off by Dr Jain.

Dharti Ki Pukar staged at Rose Garden

A play titled "Dharti Ki Pukar” was staged at the Rose Garden as part of the Environment day celebrations. The Environment Society of India also organised an awareness-cum-action programme for desilting village ponds at Village Khuda Ali Sher. Dr K. K. Garg Joint Director, Ministry of Environment and Forest who inaugurated the function, expressed concern over the fact that the village pond was not desilted inspite of sanctioning of funds from the local MP quota.

Environment training imparted

Meanwhile, nearly 20 teachers attended the "Environmental Training Programme” organised by the Environmental Monitoring Instruments Division, Central Scientific Instruments Organisation here today.

Dr R. P. Bajpai, Director CSIO, spoke on the need to control the industrial pollution. H. S. Sohal, Director Environment, made the audience aware about the vehicular pollution status in India and in Chandigarh. A painting competition was also held at Government Girls’ Senior Secondary School, Sector 8.

Rally by school children

In Panchkula, an environment rally was flagged off by Anurag Aggarwal, Additional Deputy Commissioner at Yavnika Stadium and was led by Phool Khatri, District Education Officer and A. K. Rana of Haryana State Pollution Control Board. Children of various schools passed through Sectors 7, 8 and, 9 with placards carrying messages of a clean and green city in hands.

Seminar organised The Environment Society of Haryana organised a seminar on "Life, Earth and Seas" at Majri Chowk here today. D. N. Kakar, president of the society said that non-government organisations should play a greater role in enhancing public awareness about healthy living.

Quiz on snakes

To celebrate the World Environment Day, a quiz was organised by Wildernest, a nature conservation organisation, headed by Suresh Sharma, at Bal Bhawan in Sector 23, today.

Out of the 15 teams which participated, only five qualified after a prelimnary questionnaire round. There were three persons in a team with the exception of a children’s team having four members. The teams were named after snakes and questions of the quiz pertained to snakes only. Due to paucity of time the scheduled five rounds were cut down to one round, the general round.The quiz waswon by the youngest team calledthe King Cobra.The team had children in the age group of 7-12years. A snake cell was also launched on the occasion. The underlying idea is that anyone spotting a snake can call a mobile number or page at 9612-6401. A professional team will be sent to retrive the snake and send it to its natural habitat.