Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal has recently conducted a Poster Making Competition as the part of national level Young Environmentalist of the year-2013 contest. Ojaswini Tripati, XII from Carmal Convent Senior Secondary School, BHEl bagged the first award while Disha Chaturvedi, XI, Bal Bhawan School, Shymla Hills secured second position and Shikha Saxsena, Jawaharlal Nehru School has adjudged third place.
The five encouragement prizes went to 'Vijay keer, Maa Kamla HS School, Bhopal' 'Saumya Shukla, St Joseph's Convent Girls School, Bhopal' 'Kokila Bhattacharya, NID, Ahmedabad' 'Rashmi Batham, College institute for excellence Bhopal' and Aprita Shrivastava, Green valley, Bhopal.
Sudesh Waghmare, Assistant Director, Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal, Anand Tahengria, Chief Artist, IGRMS, Bhopal and Khilique, Birds of Bhopal were the judges of the contest. S Sethuramalingam, Scientist-E of the Museum studied the expression of children in their posters and said that the awareness level about the climate change, among the age group (15-20) of students of Bhopal is more than last year.
He further said 37 per cent of participants expressed their concern about the water conservation and water cycle related issues as a result of climate change. Similarly 27 per cent of participants have felt the urgency to act immediately as their drawn pictures depict the impact of climate change has gone beyond tolerance. Besides, 18 per cent of the contestant expressed their apprehension about the air pollution. Another 18 per cent of the students expressed their views about raising temperature and its impact on day to day life and desertification.