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World Earth Day Celebrations

Chandigarh, 22nd April, 2016: A Conference on "Environmental Education through Eco Clubs - let us think globally and act locally" on the occasion of ‘World Earth Day was inaugurated today by Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, UT Chandigarh at Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary School, Sector 27-A, Chandigarh. The conference was organized by Department of Environment & Forests in collaboration with Youth Innovative Society (an Environmental NGO), to promote Eco Club activities for educating and spreading awareness amongst the students on environment.
On this occasion, the “Greening Chandigarh Action Plan 2016-17” was released by the Chief Guest. This Annual Greening Chandigarh Action Plan is a guiding tool for all the greening agencies of Chandigarh Administration to strategies effectively to fulfill their commitment of making City Beautiful more clean & green. Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, also launched the Website on ‘Digitization of Forest Flora of Chandigarh’ for the general public.

The ‘Best Eco-Club Award of UT Chandigarh’ for 2015 was also distributed by the Chief Guest, for commendable work done in the field of Environment Conservation. The Prize winners were as follows:-
Position
Name of School/ Eco-club
Name of Eco-Club
Name of Principal
Name of Teacher Incharge
1st
St. Stephen’s School, Sector-45-B, Chandigarh
Nature’s Glory
Principal
Mr. Harold Carver
Mrs. Seema Gupta
2nd
Divya Public School, Sector44-D, Chd.
Harit Dharaa
Principal
Mr. Rajesh Kamal

Mrs. Geeta Swami
3rd
Govt. Model Sr. Sec. School, Sector-38(W) DMC, Chd
Shatavari
Principal
Mr. Chitranjan Singh
Mr. Rakesh Dahiya
Conso-lation
Govt. Model Sr. Sec. School, Sector-33-D, Chd
Vasumati
Principal
Mrs. Indra Beniwal
Ms. Anju Mahajan
Conso-lation
Carmel Convent School, Sector 9-B, Chandigarh
Go Green
Principal
Sr. Maria Swati
Mrs. Ritu Yadav

Sh. Parimal Rai, IAS, Adviser to the  Administrator, UT Chandigarh, called upon all stockholders to plant more & more trees and make this ‘Greening Chandigarh Acton Plan 2016-17’ a grand success. He also congratulated ‘Best Eco Club Awardees’. He exhorted that we all should strive for making this city a Carbon neutral city on view of Global warming.
In his welcome address, Sh. Santosh Kumar, IFS, CCF informed that against the target of 2, 05,000 saplings in 2015-16, altogether 2, 48,338 saplings were planted and this year 2016-17, a target of 2,20,000 saplings have been fixed.
He further informed that through the website www.chandigarhforestflora.in, any general person can identify  a tree with the help of its 2-3 features like shape of leaves, color of flowers etc. besides, it lists out all major tree species found in Chandigarh along with its full taxonomy and other details.
Among other prominent personalities attending the function were Sh. Santosh Kumar, IFS, Chief Conservator of Forest & Director Environment, Sh. Birendra Choudhary, IFS, DCF(WL) and Ms. Arpana, IFS, DCF(BG&NR) , Sh. PJS Dadhwal, Additional Director ( Env) and other senior officers of the Administration, Sh. Sachin Sharma, Chairman, Youth Innovative Society. The function was attended by various Eco Club Incharges, School Principals & Teachers of Schools of Chandigarh.


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