Satabdi Debadulari, a Class-IX student of the DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur here has been conferred with the prestigious Young Environmentalist award for the years 2015 at a function held in New Delhi on the occasion of the World Environment Day on Friday.
Union Minister for Forest and Environment Prakash Javedkar gave away the award to Satabdi, whose poster on ‘It’s our turn to lead’ depicting sustainable development was adjudged as best in a nation-wide competition, organised by the National Museum of Natural History to commemorate Earth Day on April 22. The award carried a medal, a certificate and Rs10,000 cash award. Satabdi’s poster would be used to further propagate the mission of the organizers. The girl would be felicitated by the school, informed school Principal KC Satapathy.