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Glimpses of Initiatives taken by winner teacher in-charges at state level

D.P Singh (Geography Teacher) Shree Mahaprabhu Public School, Allahabad

Role in YPL

• Mentored 6 YPL students.

• He guided his students to:

– Form an eco-club “Prakriti Nature club’’.

– Motivated students for “Swacchta ki pahel” at over 500

locations. Video documented over 100 such locations.

– Initiate a Green Code of Conduct in his school and YPL

members took a lead in dissemination

– Motivated YPL students to organize two Cleanliness

drives under “Namami Gange”, a campaign on Hand

washing in school, Paper bag campaign (1000 paper bags)

– Organized seminars on various topics for YPL students.

– Mobilized funds, other resources and information

dissemination.

Own initiatives:

• Have planted more than 50 saplings in his village.

• Connected school with Joint Forest Management and mobilized

resources and planted around 100 trees per year in last 4 years in

ashram.

Mr D.P. Singh has adopted the way of extra curricular

activities like campaigning, cleanliness drive, plantation drive

etc in his subject’s curriculum to aware and motivate students

to work towards making a better environment.

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Manpreet Singh Sandhu (Economics) Benhur Public School, Pilibhit

Role in YPL:

Mentored 3 YPL students.

Formed an eco club.

Carried out cleanliness drive daily after recess.

Networking between authorities and students.

Motivated YPL students to take lead role in

Water Conservation project in school

School shortlisted for national level Earthian

Award.

Used Social Media Sites as tool to promote YPL

Initiatives taken by Students

Own initiatives:

• Comes from a rural background and does his own

farming and is planning to start organic farming

• Takes effort to link environmental aspects in his teaching

and tries to give students real life examples.

• Has initiated steps in his school for water conservation,

increasing greenery in school campus and making school

a polythene free zone.

• Regularly organizes cleanliness drive with his students in

school and in nearby community

Nusrat Fatima (Urdu) Kastoorba Gandhi Awasiya Balika Vidyalaya, Nandpur

chinhut, Lucknow

Role in YPL:

• Formed an Eco club.

• Helped YPL student in organizing slogan writing and drawing competition.

• Worked very hard with YPL and other students to make her school a fertile land

Ms Nusrat helped students in following activities:

• forming a compost pit.

• Carried out cleanliness drives in school.

• Prepared a skit with students.

• Prepared a kitchen garden in school and regularly involved in its care

• With the help of students have prepared a drainage system in school to utilize waste water.

Own initiatives:

• Her school is just 2 years old and initially a barren land, it is now

full green, with more than 100 species of plants and a rich kitchen

garden. Ms. Nusarat is one of the team member who made all this

possible

• Takes all the extra efforts to make her school a clean, green and

polythene free school

• innovative- as all the oil cans have been turned into dustbins,

organizes small programmes to make best out of waste

• Plans to do composting in the coming session

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Poonam Dua (Biology) Delhi Public School, Greater Noida

Role in YPL:

• Mentored 2 YPL students

• Tried promoting project based learning, eg. the taps leaking in

school were repaired in front of school students

• Helped in mobilizing funds for the activities of YPL students

• Promoted YPL learnings and initiatives on Social media sites

Own initiatives:

• She started her environment related initiative as a one hour no electricity drive in summers and minimum use of lights in winters in her school.

• Being a HOD, has ensured, from the last 5 years, that teacher's diaries and other official documents are covered with old newspapers

• She took initiative in replacing piped irrigation of gardens with sprinkle irrigation

• Helped school in adopting a village for making students understand rural life

• Tries to celebrate all environment days in school

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R.P. Pandey (English) SOS, Hermann Gmeiner School, Varanasi

Role in YPL

• Mentored 4 YPL students.

• He guided his students to:

– Initiate their projects and guided wherever they faced difficulties

– Established networking with school authorities and some organizations

working in Varanasi

– Motivated YPL students to take up challenging projects and often worked

after school hours to guide his students

– Mobilized funds, other resources and information dissemination.

– Through authorities got YPL initiatives linked as part of school Formative

assessment

• Mentors the nature club of the school

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"I learned how to implement any project work on student and society level, during this process some difficulties were faced but resolved also. I will carry all these experiences to the next year for my students and people".