State Housing and Environment Minister Rajesh Munat on Friday said that environment protection is necessary for human life and the world. This culture should be created from childhood.
Addressing the valedictory function of the three-day state-level ‘Eco Baal Mela’ here , Munat, who was the chief guest of the function, said that teachers should also inform students about environment related knowledgeable things, so that they might get encouraged in environment protection.
He stressed on the need of participation of all classes of the society for environment protection. The Minister put emphasis on planting maximum number of saplings, maintenance of planted saplings, protection and augmentation of lakes in all villages and cities for protection of environment.
Munat praised the Eco-Club scheme run by the Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) of the State government for development and expansion of environment conscience among schoolchildren.
CECB Chairman and Principal Secretary, Housing and Environment N Baijendra Kumar presided over the function. A total of 350 students linked to Eco Clubs of different schools participated in the State-level Mela. Essay, poster and speech competitions have been organised for them. Excellent Eco Clubs have been selected on the occasion.
Presiding over the function, CECB Chairman and Principal Secretary Housing and Environment, N Baijendra Kumar said that everybody should keep it in mind that development of all is dependent upon the protection of environment. This could be done with the cooperation of all.
He informed the schoolchildren of the objective of CECB’s annual event .
The First prize for excellent Eco Club has been given away to Senior Secondary School Sector-7 Bhilai Nagar, whereas, English Medium Middle School of Sector-9 and Government Model Higher Secondary School Basna, Mahasamund bagged the second prize. The third prize was gone to Carmel Higher Secondary School Raigarh and Government Higher Secondary School Tuman, Korba.
The First prize for state-level Essay competition Category-1 was won by Vedant Mishra of OP Jindal School Raigarh. In category-2, Kaustubh Chikhalkar of Model English Higher Secondary School Dhamtari bagged the first prize, while P Shrishti of BSP Higher Secondary School Bhilai Nagar grabbed first prize in category-3. In the State-level Poster competition category-1, B Prerana of English Medium Middle School Bhilai Nagar got first prize, Roshni Pradhan of Senior Secondary School Sector-7 Bhilai Nagar got first prize in category-2 and in category-3, Ekta Malhotra of Senior Secondary School Sector-7 Bhilai Nagar got first prize.
In the state-level Speech Competition, Arshad Raja of Government Higher Secondary School Nagpur district Korea bagged first prize in category-1, Shreya Chandravanshi of BSP Higher Secondary School Bhilai Nagar bagged first prize in category-2 and Jashwant Kurre of Government Higher Secondary School Karhi got first prize in category-3.
Secretary, Housing and Environment Department, Sanjay Shukla was also present on the occasion.