Tata Steel’s Tata Quality Management Services (TQMS) organised Pankh, designed  to showcase innovative projects taken up by students in schools. 

Pankh was organised  at the Centre for Excellence on Friday where seven schools presented nine projects that they had undertaken in their respective schools.

Ruchi Narendran, social worker was the guest on the occasion while there were three judges — Dipankar Sengupta and Durga Dutt Pathak both retired Tata Steel executives and Rajani Shekhar, principal DBMS English School.

Pankh was initiated in 2013 with the objective to encourage students to seek and question, appreciate global issues and to systematically look for  solutions in areas as diverse as environment, safety, ethics, social causes etc.

This was a unique and maiden attempt to showcase the enquiring mind of students. Students of 19 schools submitted 35 projects.

Nine projects out of 35 were shortlisted by an evaluation team comprising

Veena Priyadarshi, lecturer, Graduate School, College for Women, Ratnabali Sengupta, educationist and teacher,

for presentation before

a jury.

The activity is a part of the Tata Steel Education Excellence Programme (TEEP) in which schools have been participating for the last decade.

TEEP also organises the annual Dr JJ Irani Awards for Excellence in Education based on an education assessment programme which started in 2004.

While Motilal Nehru Public School presented their waste management project of generating vermi compost fertiliser from organic waste in the campus, Gulmohur High School presented their project Paper Magic, where students initiated jewellery making in campus trained mothers and earned profits too.