Earth Day: Students pledge to save environment

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 22

City schools held several events to create awareness on environment conservation to mark the Earth Day.

Staff and students of Spring Dale Senior School came up with an environmental awareness campaign wherein children of the school’s special needs wing and teachers participated. Principal Rajiv Kumar Sharma said the kids with special needs covered a wall with creepers to spread the message of conserving the environment by planting and saving trees.

Students of DAV Public School, Lawrence Road, also conducted a special assembly on Earth Day. They shared their views about the importance of environment conservation and how to work towards it. Students also participated in creative activities like poster making and slogan writing to showcase their awareness about conserving natural resources. Principal Neera Sharma reminded the students of their responsibility towards the mother Earth.

Meanwhile, a local organisation, Phulkari, also marked the day by initiating a community-based campaign to encourage people to adopt sustainable lifestyle. “We stand at a decisive threshold where we can be remembered by posterity as the generation which destroyed the planet for them or as the generation which saved the planet for them. Ice caps are melting, oceans are rising, forests are diminishing, weather patterns are getting disrupted, animal and plant life is dying and global warming is accelerating at an alarming rate,” said Praneet Bubber, president, Phulkari.

‘Reduce usage of plastic’

Tarn Taran: Sri Guru Angad Dev College, Khadoor Sahib, 25 km from here, in collaboration with Pollution Control Board, on Monday celebrated Earth Day to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Environmental engineer GS Majithia presided over the event while Baba Sewa Singh was the chief guest.

Majithia said it was the responsibility of everyone to save God’s greatest creations on this earth. Dr Raghuram, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, addressed the students to minimise the use of plastic and also educated about the risks associated with the use and disposal of plastic. College patron Baba Sewa Singh said to keep towns and roads clean we must give honour to Earth as survival of human being was not possible without it. College Principal Kanwajit Singh presented a vote of thanks.