Chitkara College of Education celebrates International Ozone Day

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, September 19

In order to commemorate the 35 years of the Vienna Convention and 35 years of global ozone layer protection, Chitkara College of Education, in association with the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, Climate Change (MOEF), and the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) celebrated Ozone Day under ED Social Module.

Alpha teachers of Chitkara College of Education actively participated in a poster-making competition. The students of Chitkara International School, Chandigarh, participated in an online quiz competition titled ‘Ozone-o-logy’. The objective of this quiz competition was to refresh the knowledge of the students about the ozone layer and its preservation.

The celebration of Ozone day started with the expert talk on the theme ‘Ozone for Life’ by Dr Sumit Arora, who is working as capacity building and institutional strengthening specialist under the State Mission Management Unit of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. The talk helped in sensitising the audience about less usage of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) and the consequences of damaging ozone. The session ended with a lot of a question-answer session.

Another expert talk focused on inculcating the skills among the Alpha Teachers of Chitkara College of Education on the theme ‘Kitchen Gardening’ by Dr Puneet Arora, founder, Ecologic Corporation and member of NGO Social Substance. The talk instilled in the Alpha teachers the importance of home-grown food and its benefits. Various methods to recycle the kitchen waste at the source were also discussed.