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Students paint dark future for power; stress on conservation

— Photo: T. Singaravelou

Imagination at work: Children participate in a painting competition organised under the National Campaign on energy conservation in Puducherry on Saturday.

PUDUCHERRY: The irony was unmistakable — a power cut during a drawing competition on the need to conserve energy, in which 49 government school students participated on Saturday.

The students, who sat in the conference hall of the Directorate of Education building, painted dark evenings in the future if people did not conserve power, how to conserve energy and people weighed down by heavy electricity bills for the topic ‘Today’s electricity wastage is tomorrow’s shortage’.

The other topic was ‘Global warming is harming’, under which students portrayed as to how people would suffer due to global warming. A student of Olandai Keerapalayam Government School, Shankar, depicted how global emissions of carbon dioxide and methane affected the atmosphere and lead to global warming.

Students of Standards IV and V of Government schools took part in State-level painting competition under the National Campaign on Energy Conservation 2007 of the Ministry of Power.

The winners will be awarded prizes at a function at Ananda Kalyana Mandapam on November 14.

In the first stage of the competition, organised by the Puducherry Government, the rural Electrification Corporation and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, a total of 7,000 students from 243 schools took part.

It was a school-level competition. Around 243 best drawings were chosen, of which 49 were sent to the finals. A total of 13 students would be chosen from the final.

All the participants were presented with Rs.1,000 each in cash, a t-shirt and a cap. The first three prize winners, who will take part in the national-level competition at Delhi, would receive Rs.10,000, Rs.8,000 and Rs.5,000 respectively. The remaining 10 students would get consolation awards of Rs.1,000 each.

The Pondicherry Historical Society organised essay, painting and oratory competitions on the theme ‘Post Independence Puducherry’ at the Andhra Maha Sabha on Saturday.

Historical Society president V. Nallam inaugurated the contest, in which 50 students took part.

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