Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal organised Debate Competition for the students of class 11 and 12 on Thursday on the theme ‘Present Air Quality is Good for Our Existence’. Twelve students from various schools of Bhopal participated in this competition.
Mimansa Mishra from Mother Teresa Sr Secondary School put forward her statement in favour of the motion and told that due to awareness people have planted more trees which made the air quality better than previous, which is good for our existence.
On the other hand, against the motion Zumra Qamar from Canyon Hr Sec School; posed the question of ‘How Dare You?’ the senior people to choke us with this worst quality of air and who gave the authority to them to exploit our share of clean air.
For the motion, the first prize bagged by Mimansa Mishra from Mother Teresa Sr Secondary School, Master Aryan Sahu from Canyon Hr Sec School scored second prize and Kusum Panth from Anand Vihar Hr Sec School bagged third prize while Master Aryan Singh from Peoples Public School; Master Varenyam Basant from World Way International School and Aditi Singh from Nalanda Convent Co-ed. Hr Sec School bagged encouragement prizes.
For against the motion, the first prize bagged by Zumra Qamar from Canyon Hr. Sec. School, Priyanka Biyani from World Way International School scored second prize and Sneha Savious from Mother Teresa Sr Secondary School bagged third prize, while Sakshi Vishwakarma from Anand Vihar Hr Sec School; Shalini Tiwari from Nalanda Convent Co-ed, Hr Sec School and Master Kushagra Richhariya from Peoples Public School bagged consolation prizes.
Prem Kumar Shrivastava, Senior Scientist from MP Pollution Control Board; Sudesh Waghmare, Former Deputy Conservator of Forest, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh and Beenish Rafat, Scientist-C of the museum were the Jury Members of this debate competition.