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Environmental awareness scheme for students

KOCHI: Head teachers of 65 schools in the Kochi Corporation area will assemble at the Council hall of the Corporation on Thursday to be part of a massive environmental awareness programme among students.

The teachers representing the schools will take home the message of the EnYironmend programme, an initiative of the Kochi chapter of the Young Indians, the youth wing of the Confederation of Indian Industry.

The programme forms part of the Integrated Environmental Awareness Programme organised by the Kochi Corporation.

The EnYironmend programme aims at involving at least 3,000 students from the city schools in the waste management programmes in the city.

Children will be encouraged through regular competitions and fun programmes to think and realise the magnitude of the issue and to come out with new solutions for addressing the issue, said a communication issued by the Young Indians.

The authorities plan to launch the programme on August 12.

The student campaigners will be awarded special recognitions and scholarships and also incentives for the successful implementation of the programme.

A green jockey award with cash prizes will be given. The institutions that take part in the programme will be recognised.

The nodal teachers who will play an active role in the movement will also be recognised and rewarded, the communication said.

The Kochi Corporation, on its part, will make use of the meeting with the head teachers to initiate the programme of segregated collection of waste in schools at classroom level. The number of plastic containers required in each school for the segregated collection of refuses will be collected at the meeting.

Kochi Mayor Mercy Williams will inaugurate the meeting. Deputy Mayor C. K. Manisankar, chairmen of Standing Committees of the Corporation, project manager of the Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Programme, K.G. Sahuji, and various stakeholders will attend the meeting.

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