Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 22: Different educational and other organisations here today celebrated Earth Day and organised many programmes to create awareness about the importance of environment.
DPS Jammu celebrated Earth Day with full zeal and vigour and the students pledged to take care of mother Earth by keeping their environment clean and green. Poster Making and Slogan Writing programmes were also held. Students of primary wing prepared trash boxes with empty cartons and carried out plantation drive. An awareness rally was also held.
DPS Nagbani also celebrated Earth Day and organised different programmes to support environment protection. A special assembly on Earth Day was held where students were informed about the importance of Earth Day and the need to save our planet. A lecture by Om Prakash Sharma Vidyarthi, Director Ecology Environment and Remote Sensing and Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests was also held on the relevance of the day.
DPS Udhampur celebrated Earth Day with a speech to aware students about the significance of the day was organised. This was followed by reciting of a poem about awareness on Do’s and Don’ts. The Art and Craft department beautified an unattended patch of land at the backyard of the school. The students were also made aware about hazards of using plastic.
Mount Litera Zee School, Tarore Bridge, Samba celebrated Earth Day with full enthusiasm. A special assembly was held where students as well as teachers took oath that they will say no to plastic bags in their daily lives. ‘Card Making’ activity on Earth Day was also held where students showed concern and love for the earth through the card making.
Students and staff of Dewan Devi Playway & Hr Sec School celebrated Earth Day in the school premises. Kindergarten students of the school were involved in different activities depicting Earth Day in their scrap books.
Stephens International Public School organised poster making competition on ‘Save Earth’ where the students showed uniqueness of the planet through variation of colours. Creative slogans over the posters aptly complemented the message ‘Save Earth’.
Doon International School Jammu celebrated Earth Day and the students were sensitized about the importance of saving environment. During a special assembly a song by the school choir depicting the love for the mother Earth enthralled the audience.
Weeklong celebrations of Earth Day concluded at KC Public School with a wide range of activities performed by both senior and junior wings of the school. Children of Early Education wing of the junior school took part in a special assembly to celebrate day of mother Earth. Suitably attired for the occasion and bearing placards and banners in their hands, they also took out a rally on school campus and made an ardent appeal for the conservation of fauna of the planet earth.
Earth Day was celebrated by Tiny Scholars School, Logate Morh, Kathua. A symposium and a poster making competition was organized by the Forest Department where 60 students participated to create awareness about the conservation of endangered species.
On Earth Day, GD Goenka Public School, Jammu took a green initiative to spread the message of preservation of mother Earth through poster making and slogan writing. Rajesh Rathore, Principal of the School talked about the importance of trees and his vision of Green Goenka, Cool Goenka.
Mother’s Pride & Joy School celebrated Earth Day where the children were made aware about serious problems that the planet Earth is facing today.
International Daily Rising School celebrated Earth Day with much enthusiasm wherein the students were sensitized towards their role in addressing global environmental challenges at grass root level. The students collectively participated in song, dance and poems based on Earth Day.
Department of Environmental Sciences and NCC Unit (Naval Wing) of GDC Samba along with Basantar Eco-Club celebrated Earth Day. A cleanliness drive was undertaken on this occasion in the college campus in which the students participated enthusiastically.
Aadarsh Bhartiya Samaj (ABS)-a Social Volunteer Organisation working to promote education, environment, health and nationhood among the general masses and student community celebrated ‘Earth Day’. ABS members organised programmes to spread the message of reduce, reuse, recycle, restore and replenish.
Police Public School Jammu celebrated Earth Day with great enthusiasm. The social science department organised a special assembly on this occasion to generate awareness about the ‘Earth Our Home’. A skit comparing the Earth of 1970, 2014 and 2020 made the students realise the gravity of the need to protect our planet from ourselves.
Earth Day was celebrated by J&K SPCB, Jammu in a programme based on the theme ‘Protect Our Species’. On this occasion Faith leaders like Pope Francis, quoted that by protecting Earth one protects God’s greatest creations-humans, biodiversity and the planet that we all live on. Ravi Kumar Kesar, Chairman, J&K SPCB was the chief guest during the event and Suresh Chugh, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, was the guest of honour.
To celebrate Earth Day, the Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu organised an event with the theme ‘Protect Our Species’. Dr. Deepak Pathania (HoD) in his address encouraged students to make public aware about importance and role of different species and to conserve them.
Government Degree College Poonch celebrated Earth Day and organised a symposium and painting competition in collaboration with State Pollution Control Board. In a programme on this occasion power point presentation stressed upon ban on the use of plastic and its adverse impact on environment.
Earth Day was celebrated by National Development Organisation in collaboration with Public Technocrats Society at Darhal Malkan in Rajouri. The programme was inaugurated by Sarpanch, Baitullah Malik. School children recited Saraswati Vandana. The programme was presided over by Chairman, J&K Confederation of Associated NGOs, Arun Kumar Khajuria. Different speakers talked about ways and means of saving Earth.
Army celebrated Earth Day in Poonch and Rajouri districts by organising programmes at different schools and at Youth Centre, Palma. On the occasion Army conducted awareness lectures for the students and youth of local villages. In yet another programme on Earth Day, Army organised programme for students at Hamirpur Sidhar in Akhnoor.
Gandhi Global Family J&K celebrated Earth Day in collaboration with the Department of Wildlife Protection at Nature Interpretation Centre Manda, Jammu. A large gathering comprising of students from different schools, prominent civil society members and Forest & Wildlife Department officers were present. The event was initiated by Dr S.P Verma President Gandhi Global Family, J&K who talked about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by United Nations in 2015. Suresh Chugh, PCCF, J&K Forests Department was the chief guest and he apprised the gathering of various initiatives being taken by the dept for preserving the Earth.
Bhaderwah Campus of University of Jammu organised an expert lecture on e-waste to celebrate Earth Day.
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