The members of Paribesh Suraksha Abhijana (PSA) went to DDCE (Directorate of Distance of Continuing Education) , Utkal University, Bhubaneswar to conduct awareness programs for the Distance education students on the environment.
Dr. Krushna Chandra Rath, Director, DDCE, Bhubaneswar presided over the meeting. The members of PSA who participated were Sri Raghunath Prusty, Dr Pradeep Rath, Dr. Kalyani Mohanty, Dr Narayan Tripathi, & Smt Namita Mohapatra . Dr. Sujit Acharya, Associated Professor & coordinator of the program introduced the guests. We enlightened the students mostly the MBA and B. Ed who participated with the problem of Global warming and climate change that the whole world is suffering by frequent climate disasters. We have to take small steps to combat the crisis by way of planting trees at our individual level. The students were told that they would be our environment soldiers. It was appealed to plant a tree in their birthdays in each year and they should take care of the plants till it's proper growth. It was also told not to waste water and to economically use the precious water. The ill effects of polythene was illustrated and was requested to follow four 'R's. Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle. At the end of the awareness meeting we associated the students and planted around 20 plants. We were not interested in planting in this season. But, Director requested to plant symbolically. So we planted. The incident was covered in Odia dailies Pragativadi and Sakal.
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