ECO-FRIENDLY DEEPAVALI IS ALL THEY WANT

Bangalore Mirror , Monday, November 09, 2015
Correspondent : Sanika Athavale
Kids take Malleshwaram residents into confidence through campaign

What a pleasant surprise it was for the residents of Malleshwaram, on Thursday, to open their doors to the faces of smiling students, who were campaigning in the area for promoting an 'eco-friendly' Deepavali. Many residents were only too happy to put their signatures and promises on a cracker-free festival of lights.

The initiative, taken by the students of KV Malleshwaram, was led by a group of class 6 girls and had over a hundred participants aged between 12 and 16.

The team of Arya, Ananya, Hitha, Harini and Sreenidhi spearheaded this campaign, drawing inspiration from the findings of their project, "Understanding Weather and Climate". "We undertook this project to highlight the ill-effects of air pollution on human beings and understand the relationship between humidity, temperature and hospital admissions," said vice-principal Dr Rubina who has been assisting these youngsters in their project work since the beginning. "They can go ahead and write papers on it as only US and China have researched on this topic so far," she added.

Their project has been selected to compete at the National Children's Science Congress, after a gruelling regional round that short-listed only 19 projects out of the 250 that were submitted.

"We found that from Bengaluru's population, 79% suffered from respiratory problems, 24% from frequent cold and 21% from asthma," said Arya, the team leader.

The students worked with the Meteorological Department, Karnataka Pollution Control Board and KC General Hospital for their research. When these budding geniuses were surprised by how the amount of RSPM in the city's air crossed the permissible limits determined by the state's pollution control board, they concluded that some action was needed to curb these atrociously high amounts of carbon emissions. And what better an occasion to control air pollution than Deepavali?

 
SOURCE : Kids take Malleshwaram residents into confidence through campaign What a pleasant surprise it was for the residents of Malleshwaram, on Thursday, to open their doors to the faces of smiling students, who were campaigning in the area for promoting an 'eco-friendly' Deepavali. Many residents were only too happy to put their signatures and promises on a cracker-free festival of lights. The initiative, taken by the students of KV Malleshwaram, was led by a group of class 6 girls and had over a hundred participants aged between 12 and 16. The team of Arya, Ananya, Hitha, Harini and Sreenidhi spearheaded this campaign, drawing inspiration from the findings of their project, "Understanding Weather and Climate". "We undertook this project to highlight the ill-effects of air pollution on human beings and understand the relationship between humidity, temperature and hospital admissions," said vice-principal Dr Rubina who has been assisting these youngsters in their project work since the beginning. "They can go ahead and write papers on it as only US and China have researched on this topic so far," she added. Their project has been selected to compete at the National Children's Science Congress, after a gruelling regional round that short-listed only 19 projects out of the 250 that were submitted. "We found that from Bengaluru's population, 79% suffered from respiratory problems, 24% from frequent cold and 21% from asthma," said Arya, the team leader. The students worked with the Meteorological Department, Karnataka Pollution Control Board and KC General Hospital for their research. When these budding geniuses were surprised by how the amount of RSPM in the city's air crossed the permissible limits determined by the state's pollution control board, they concluded that some action was needed to curb these atrociously high amounts of carbon emissions. And what better an occasion to control air pollution than Deepavali?
 


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