Winners of Green Diwali Campaign Honoured by Department of Environment, UT Chandigarh

Chandigarh, 23rd November, 2020: To promote cracker free, pollution free and safe festival of Deepawali, this year the Department of Environment, Chandigarh Administration along with Yuvsatta-NGO organized an Inter-School Short Mobile Video Contest on theme of ‘My Green Diwali-My Green Pledge’, in which over 225 students and teachers from twenty prominent Schools of the city participated.
Today, in a formal function with all COVID protocols at Paryavaran Bhawan, Sector 19, Sh.Debendra Dalai, IFS, CCF & Director, Department of Environment honoured the prize winning students and teachers.
Appreciating the whole-hearted participation of all the city residents in ‘Green Diwali Celebrations’, Sh.Debendra Dalai said that this year at PGI, just one burn case from Chandigarh were reported on Diwali night against 60 in the festival the previous year. Moreover, with Chandigarh saying no to crackers, the city saw its AQI at 140 on the day after the festival against 341 last Diwali, which is a commendable achievement.
Mr.Dalai added that a day after the Diwali festival we used to see our area littered with trash of cracker boxes and empty bottles, but this year it was different and clean. Now, we all have to keep this momentum of maintaining clean and green city alive.
The winners of the Inter-School Short Mobile Video Contest were as under:-
BEST FIVE JUNIOR SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS (Class I-V): Gurleen Kaur, Gurukul Global School, Ms. Dhruvika Bhardwaj,ManavMangal High School, Koushal, Saupin’s School, Abhinandit Sharma, St. Stephen’s Preparatory School and Akankshaof St. Joseph’s Sr. Secondary School, Chandigarh.
BEST FIVE SENIOR SCHOOL PARTICIPANTS (Class VI-XII): Shivam Vats, GMSSS, Sector 35D, Nistha Navya, KB DAV Sr. Sec. Public School, AnamayTripathy, ManavMangal High School, Aryan Kaushik, St. Joseph’s Sr. Sec. School and Angad, St. Johns High School, Chandigarh.
BEST FIVE TEACHERS: Mrs.Seema Rani, Principal, GMSSS, Dhanas, Mrs.ParveenKumari, Eco Club Incharge, GGMSSS, Sector 20B, Mrs.Sheetal, Eco Club Incharge, GMSSS, Kaimbwala, Mrs.Swati and Mrs.Monica Gulati of Manav Mangal High School, Chandigarh.
Mr.Pramod Sharma, Coordinator of Yuvsatta added that besides the merit certificates and memento’s the winners were also given cash prize with rupees 1000/- each in junior category, rupees fifteen hundred each for senior and rupees twenty five hundred each for all teachers. Besides this Sh.Debendra Dalai also presented a special Award of Honour to Principal, ManavMangal School for overall BEST PARTICIPATION of their School.