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Green ‘gyan' for NCC cadets

HYDERABAD: NGC stirred NCC when the two corps came together here Friday morning at the sprawling Bison Polo Grounds.

National Green Corps (NGC) imparted some valuable green lessons to select 300 cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) kick-starting World Wildlife Week celebrations, observed from October 1 to 7. They were drawn from different battalions of Hyderabad Group.

Fun games

While the regular essay writing, elocution, creative writing and spot painting competitions were there, what caught their attention and in a sense, helped them better engage with the environment were the ingenious ‘fun games' organised by NGC.

In one of the games, conceptualised to demonstrate the vital role of different players in a terrestrial ecosystem, cadets were asked to wear the masks of different animals – lion, tiger, deer, elephant, plants etc. Green lessons for better conservatiopn

Each organism in the food chain was mapped to its prey through a rope – plant to deer, deer to tiger and so forth. “See, now all the animals are staying happily in the forest,” pointed out NGC director WG Prasanna Kumar, the rope intact in the hands of the ‘prey-predators'.

Enter a human being who begins consuming the different species, demonstrated in the act by a male cadet tugging the rope links held together by the masked ‘organisms'. They succumb. When a human enters the ecosystem and starts interfering with it, consuming one species after the other, it leads to destruction of the web chain, Mr. Kumar explained.

Tips

Tips were also handed down by the NGC representatives on the do's and don'ts with wild animals – never look into an animal's eyes, never talk to an animal or disturb it in its natural habitat etc. Despite the scorching sun beating down their backs, the cadets, dressed in khakis, lapped up all the ‘gyan' shared with them.

About 700 cadets are participating in the combined annual NCC training camp. Some of the cadets will be selected to represent the group at the prestigious Republic Day camp in January, explained M Chamundi, the camp commandant.

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