IWCS donates seeds, fertilizer among farmers
President of Inner Wheel Club Swarnrekha Ranchi District 325, Neeta Narayan, along with Secretary Mala Srivastava, donated seeds and fertilizers including 5 kg of sweet corn, 1 kg of tomato, 1 kg of green chilli seeds and 100 kg of vermi manure to farmers in Kunjla village of Khunti. Farmer women said with contentment that they will send their children to school and educate their daughters by farming from now on. A quiz competition was organized among the girls there, which was coordinated by Archana Trivedi, Neeta Shekhar as well. As many as 21 girls were presented with solar lamps from the club, along with bag masks, sanitary napkins, books, copy, pencils from the club side. Rubber scales were given to everyone. The club members also tried to spread awareness among the people through posters and rallies about Beti Padhao Beti Bachao, Nasha Se door Raho, Cancer Awareness. Club President Neeta Narayan, Secretary Mala Srivastava, Vice President Namrata Kumar, ISO Soma Bhaduri, Editor Neeta Shekhar, Joint Editor Archana Trivedi, Neelam Akhouri, Nupur Sheshank, Debjani Sanyal, Sangeeta Sinha, Deepa Chauhan, Kamini Bharti, Nishi Srivastava, Sushma Pandey, Ambuja Sharan, Anshu Sahai, Padma Banka, Neeta Singh played crucial role in making the programmes successful.
SCS celebrates National Science Day
A series of activities were organised in a virtual mode for Junior classes as well as in ATL for the senior section on National Science Day. Classes I-V included pep talk by parents, PowerPoint on life and achievements of Sir CV Raman and a virtual tour to Science City Kolkata , keeping in mind the theme of National Science Day 2022. Parents , Dr. Jahangir Imam (Forensic Scientist), Mukund Kumar Sinha (Assistant Director) in the Directorate of Forensic Science and Laboratory, Hotwar and Mamta Kumari ( Dietician) came forward to share their experiences & interacted with children to make the day memorable. A short programme was organised by Senior Section students and teachers that included Speech, Role play and Quiz. The Chief Guest was Shashi Kant Shekhar, PHD Scholar and Junior Researcher at the entre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Estonia, who addressed the students online and also briefed them with valuable information that contained recent shift in scientific research, EducationalTechnology, Technology Enhanced Learning, Learning Analytics and Career and Academic options in Learning Analytics. He motivated and inspired the students to follow their heart and pursue their dreams.
Apex panel meeting for Security Project held at BSL
The second meeting of the Apex Committee for the ongoing security project "Kavach" in BSL was held under the chairmanship of Director-in-Charge Bokaro Steel Plant, Amarendu Prakash. ED (MM , Personnel & Administration) VK Pandey, Acting ED (Works) Sanjay Kumar, CGM Inc (Finance & Accounts) S Rangani, CGM (Maintenance) S Mukhopadhyay, CGM Inc (Projects) Nirmalendu Ray, CGM (C&IT) A. Bankira, GM Inc (S&FS) Anand Rautela, CGM (BGH) Dr. Prakash Pandey and Founder & Director( ASK-EHS) JK Anand, RK Poddar and senior officers of ASK-EHS were present. In the beginning of the meeting, the director-in-charge administered a security pledge to all. Thereafter, it was decided to initiate the formation of the Security Implementation Committee (DLSIC) at the departmental level to further strengthen the IOS and to consolidate the unified organizational structure for smooth functioning of various committees from top management to personnel level. The DIC said that there is a need to strengthen and regularize the efforts to take us from one stage of cultural change to the next.
Nudge Prize and Ashirvad Water Challenge
The Nudge Foundation, and Ashirvad Pipes, in partnership with the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt. of India, announced a prize for startups and innovators working on solutions to provide clean drinking water to the underprivileged and rural households. The initiative aims to support solutions that address population-scale water challenges. With a total Prize Purse of INR 2.5 Crores (INR 1.75 crore grand prize for the winning solution and runner up + milestone grants for finalists), the program will run for 18 months and will support entrepreneurs in developing, testing, and scaling solutions through a network of investors, mentors, technology and knowledge partners, and policy circle advisors. The challenge will give impetus to the government’s Jal Jeevan Mission that is envisioned to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual household tap connections to all households in rural India by 2024. Prof K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, whose office co-facilitated the Prize said, “The Government of India believes that multi-stakeholder partnerships are key to bringing about transformative changes to address issues of national priorities."