SHIMLA: Aditya Pratap of class XI and Akshit Kumar of class X from govt. sr. sec. school Bassi (Bilaspur) became the first environment champions of the state on World Environment Day.
Garvit Sahni Class- XII and Sarvansh Vashisth of Class XII - ST. Lukes Sr Sec School were the first runners up, who won tablets, medals and trophies.
Parin Bhardwaj & Divyansh Jamwal from Eklavya model residential school Nichar (Kinnaur) were awarded with mobile phones and trophies.
Teams stood at 4,5 & 6th ranks awarded with mobiles, laptop bags & participation certificates.
Suresh Bharwaj, Urban Development Minister was the Chief Guest on the occasion appreciated that the first environment champions are the students from the government schools that speak volumes that the quality of education has improved in the state.
Suresh Bhardwaj gave away the prizes to the winners. As many as 2754 schools and 4944 teams participated in the district level round and 33 winning teams from 12 districts participated in the first state level competition held today at the HP University Summer Hill Shimla.
Minister expressed his pleasure that “the first environment champion of Himachal Pradesh” is from govt. school.
Winning team was awarded with Laptops, medals and trophies. He congratulated the students, principals and staff for maintaining quality education in their institution.
Probodh Saxena, Addl. Chief Secretary Environment Science & Technology) cum Chairman H.P. State Pollution Control Board said ancient practices of environment protection by citing several examples.
He said that one of the essence of Ramayana is Sanjeevani Booti, which is the gift from nature to mankind.
He emphasized that due to the effect of climate change they need to reorient development priorities to achieve its objectives in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Apoorv Devgan, IAS, Member Secretary, Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board in his welcome address stated “children are the future of the country and safe keepers of our environment”.
“We hope that the quiz will be right trigger to induce positive attitude towards environment conservation”.
He also informed that Govt. of India imposed ban on a number of Single Use Plastic Items w.e.f. 1st July 2022 and appealed all stakeholders to extend all support for implementation of above ban in letter and spirit.
Noted Quiz Master, Venky Srinivasan (CEO, Nexus Consulting) conducted the Quiz Competition after the address.
Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board organised the first ever State Level Inter School Quiz Competition namely “Himachal Enviro Quiz- 2022” on the occasion of World Environment Day 2022 in association with “Nimyle Eco Friendly India Mission”.
