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Kozhikode Report Analysis DISTRICT ANALYSIS REPORT Themes Water Sr. No. School Name Biodiversity Waste Management Energy Conservation Culture and Heritage Other activities covered Conservation 1)Reduce the wastage of 1)6 rainwater electricity-Assigned the harvesting structures 1)Plantation of 600 1)Visit to Thalassery Jawahar Navodaya 1)Drive against students to check up every in the school ,each 1)Celebrated a)World 1 5 saplings-"Each one plant fort,St.Angelos vidyalaya plastic wastes hostel,classes and blocks were having a storing environment day one" fort,Arakkal museum etc. the lights or fans are capacity of 40000 unnecessarily running and they litres 2)Conducted various 2)Channelising the dance 2)Planting outside the 2)Replaced all the bulbs with a)Plastic free school used water to the competitions,different folk b)World anti-drug day campus-80 saplings CFL irrigation dances and arts,tribal dances,to make the 3)During rainy months they are using the 5 HP motor from the 3)block all the 3)Identification of b)Collecting plastic harvester instead of pumping leakages and medicinal plants in the waste and send it for with the 25 HP pump from the c)World population day dropping from all the campus recycling main water source .This taps. resullted in the drastic reduction in the electricity bill. 2)Disaster management activities-seminar on c)Paper bag making 4)Workshop on principles and philosophy and distributing to Biodiversity conservation of earth quake resistant the nearby shops designs to the students,and public d)Awareness 3)World mosquito 5)Vegitable garden- campaign and eradication day-Conducted Details given (vegetables antiplastic rally in a programme procured and sold) their neighbouring Nattarivu;traditional town to create anecdotes to escape from 2)Railway station 4)Study tour to Snake park cleaning and parassinikadavu - 6)Cocunut plantation beutification of understanding the Railway park importance of Biodiversity 5)Celebrated Gandhi jayanthi-Sramadhaan was conducted inside and outside the campus. 6)World space week celebration-Interaction with the scientist from ISRO 7)Painting exhibition on BIOSPHERE AND MAN 8)World AIDS day- Seminar,poster exhibition,quiz competition on the topic AIDS 9)Public campaign on road safety 10)NGC volunteers in cancer awareness campaign- Students became the volunteers for the one day training about cancer awareness to the peoples from their panchayath 11)Students did a project on Bad effects of cooking in aluminium vessels and to suggest the people to go for traditional earthern pots and awareness campaign in the neighbouring villages. 1)Wetland conservation-A 1)Dumping of detailed study on the Narayana vilasam 1)Plantation in the near by biodegradable and Plantation in the naerby 2 5 1)Energy audit ponds in their area and 1)Celebrated a)Hiroshima day AUP School sacred groove nonbiodegradable to sacred groove conducted a seminar separate waste bins on these as part of the awareness programme 2)River conservation- Awareness 2)reducing the wastage of rally,students formed a 2)Paddy cultivation b)ozone day electricity chain around the river as a part of the awareness 3)Awareness class,Rally on 3)Vegetable garden c)Farmers day energy conservation 2)Built a aerumadam at the school -the abode built on the branches of the tree 1)Plantation inside the 1)Cleaning of the 3 GHSS Eringallor 2 1)Celebrated campus campus, 2)Identification of the trees 2)Awareness rally a)World environment day species inside the campus 3)Medicinal plant garden b)environment quiz 2)Study tour to butterfly park,Teak museum in 4)Butterfly park nilambur,kadalundi community biosphere reserve 3)A Project on mosquito 5)Making of bird nest as a eradication-did survey part of World animal welfare ,awareness in the houses in day their panchayath ward 6)Banana cultivation 4)A class on Health 5)Poster making competition on OZONE DAY 6)Distribution of foodfrom the student houses to around 200 poor patients in the medical college as a part of the world food day 7)Awareness rally on anti-war Govt Boys Higher 4 Secondary 4 1)Butterfly park 1)Campus cleaning 1)Electricity consumption- 1)Sprinkler system 1)Celebrated School,Manjeri 2)Biodiversity conservation 2)Waste water through ecosystem-Made 2)Compost pit and channelised to some a)Environment day ponds in the school waste bin banana plants. compound 3)Awareness b)Reading day campaign 4)Antiplastic poster c)Hiroshima day & Nagasaki making competition Day 1)Environment friendly square(EFS)‐ making the ward in which school lies into a square on certain criteria to make an awareness on environment pollution to the people‐Survey on the number of houses,shops,familym embers,electric appliances,waste Ramakrishna Higher 1)Medicinal forest -Around disposal,survey on the 1)Environment friendly Did a project on the history of 1)Nature camp to kuruva 5 5 1)Environment friendly square secondary School 202 medicinal trees species in the square the ponds in their area island area,wells,health aspects.planting a medicinal plant in each house,quality analysis of water in houses in the area its awareness.Based on these data they have drawn a map .Based on these they can get a idea of which arae they want to focus for the awareness 2)Making of LED BULBS and make use of these bulbs in 2)Plantation in school-Details 2)Making of cloth bags 2)Conducted an exhibition on members houses.Now they are given,species name,present and distributing 2)Onam celebration environment awareness for planning to maka an awareness on condition toshops and houses the students and for the public these LED bulbs to the houses in the environment friendly project 3)Cleaning of public 3)Plantation in the houses of places and drainage 3)Celebrated students-Details given with the help of the residential araes a)Environment day-awareness 4)Cleaning of the 4)2 Medicinal plant garden- class on coastal araes of the around 200 plants biodiversity,cleanliness by the calicut beach members to the students 5)Cleaning of class 5)Garden rooms-through b)Ozone day-seminar competition 6)Placing placards coveying 4)Conducted a workshop for 6)Paper bag making environment messages and the students from different and distributing to the uses of the medicinal planta districts-main theme houses inside the school campus environment awareness 7)Did a project on the history of the ponds in their area 5) one day camp in malabar ,ecosystem in the pond,its 7)Cloth bag making wild life sanctuary present condition and the reason for the change Celebrated environment days and other special days by conducting 8)Paddy cultivation in the 8)Placing placards in seminars,plantation,cycle school compound the school campus rally,cleaning of the public places,poster exhibition,various competitions etc-Details given 9)Collecting plastic from EFS area and 9)Banana plantation giving to the coorperation 10) AN exhibition on birds 10) and animals 1)Cleaning of the 1)Water quality Conducted a workshop on K.K Kidav memorial 1)Practice general methods on 1)Colash exhibition on ozone 6 5 1)Plantation-given details public place-on gandhi analysis survey in 200 folk arts ,to know the culture up school'cheliya reducing the wastage of electricity day jayanthi houses and heritage of their locality 2)Goodbye plastic programme focusing school and the village- 2)Monitoring and reducind the 4 stages :Awareness wastage of electricity in student to the people,plastic houses and neighbouring house- 2)Awareness class 2)Published a environment 2)Medicinal plant garden waste carrying out this project in each and documentary magazine disposal,distribution of houses in their locality-Energy of paper bags to audit survey shops,cloth bags to all the houses around 1000 in their area. 3)Awareness notice to the houses during any 3)Awareness notice against 3)Vegetable garden 3)Rain water harvester celebrations to reduce the Plague to all the houses the usage of plastic 4)Plastic usage survey 4)Awareness class on 4)Banana plantation in each houses of their 4)Recharge pits epidemic fever locality 5)Awareness class for 5)Channelisation of the students about the 5)Plantation in dispensory waste water to the 5)Field trip need of cleaning the vegetable garden surroundings 6)Plantation in the student 6)Soil quality test-as a part of houses and to the 6)Rally helping farmers neighbouring 10 houses 7)Shade for house ,shade for the place-Plantation of mango tree saplings in school compound and houses of the students Vidya prakash public 1)Reducing electricity consumption- 1)Visit to the craft 7 5 1)Roof top vegetable garden 1)Compost pit 1)Leaking taps 1)Ozone day celebration school Replacing withyCFL Bulbs village,iringal 2)Zero waste management programme-making 2)Visit to kunjali maraikar 2)New yaer celebration by 2)Medicinal plantation 2)Rain water harvester organic manure for the memorial making eco friendly cards vegetable garden from the kitchen waste 3)Water sanitation methods- 3)Plantion inside the campus Demonstration of H2S strip test,SODIS method 1)water survey- quantified the usage of water in the student Govt High 1)Plantation in school 1)Workshop on paper houses by themselfes 8 3 1)Awareness class School,Nallalam compound bag making for a week.Made an analysis and given a class on the water conservation . 2)Cleaning of the class 2)Prepared a biodiversity 2)Poster exhibition on 2)Drawing competition on the rooms and school album water conservation topic forest compound regularly 3)Placing placards in 3)Medicinal plant garden classrooms for conveying environment messages 4)Rally on environment awareness 5)Celebrated
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