Congrats to BBMP and VVN College-Part VII

At the end of the grand event, after the speeches by the chief guests, all students were really happy to have attended such a wonderful workshop. Nagamani mam gave the vote of thanks, thanking the chief guests, students, lecturers, distinguished guests, speakers and all the supporting staff. Even the dignitaries present at the event were really happy to see that the audience which comprised majority of the youth students were interested in learning about waste segregation and management.

 

My learning from this one-day workshop is that today how small mistakes of ours are leading to huge problems which are once again attacking us back. The responsibility to keep the house clean doesn't rest only with the municipal corporation. It lies in the hands of each one of us. We have to start spreading awareness among people about how harmful it is if we don't manage waste properly and start implementing the methods required for proper waste recylcing. Each one of us will be responsible for making our environment clean and free from all sorts of pollution. Unfortunately many educated people are committing the same mistakes was a disheartening thing to hear.

 

Overall, it was a great event to learn a lot technically and also to know about how different institutions had taken up the task of recylcing their college resources very seriously. Such events should be conducted at regular intervals in different institutions so that the idea gets in deep into every citizen. I congratulate and thank BBMP for sponsoring such a programme and Prasanna Udupikar mam from VVN degree college for being the key initiator for this entire extravaganza of knowledge sharing. I hope and believe that such events recur often because the more it gets delayed the more our environment gets polluted. I have started my work of spreading awareness about waste management and segregation with people whom I meet, have you started yet? You too can if you have either attended the event or have read these 7 posts on my blog.

Congrats to BBMP and VVN College-Part VI

The cherry on the cake for the entire event was Dr.Yellappa Reddy sir who has worked in forest department and also the chairman for a prominent organization at the age of 77. He spoke about how there is no garbage in forests. Animals and birds know that the place should be clean to give birth to their children. Suzuki, an 8 year old girl had spoken about how the environment was hampered by man in last few years at Rio conference for which none of them could answer. He told that the material required for a mobile is mined in a place in Cuba and if any people revolt against it, they are severely punished by the mining company. He threw light upon how 250 granite cutting companies left sledge as waste. This harms cattle which feed upon such waste and hence the milk they produce is polluted.

 

He mentioned about a case where in two post graduate students from RV College of Engineering had swam through drainage water to get samples to present it in the court to prove the presene of dangerous mercury in the contaminated water. He mentioned that 25 to 50 gm of mercury is sufficient to kill 1,00,000 people. He mentioned one more case about women farmers in Gulbarga region who suffered due to cervix cancer and breast cancer due to pesticides used including endosulphan. He took the pollution control board, agricultural and community health departements for their carelessness who didn't test as to how these chemicals would affect humans.

 

He then explained about how death of honeybees and other insects can happen due to the sugary type of waste that we throw around in parks and public spaces. This inturn would reduce pollination and hence vegatation output would get degraded rapidly. He also mentioned about Ramagundanahalli, where in there is a tree with 700 honey combs and as a result there was an increase of 25% in the food production. He shared about an instance in chikkaballapura where 500 kids from 5 panchayats gathered together to conduct a parliamentary session and performed it to utmost perfection resulting in government granting them Rs.75,00,000 worth services.