MEERUT: Setting up a right example, students of
Kendriya Vidyalaya (Sikh Lines) got together on Monday to distribute cloth bags to the
kanwariyas and urged them to not use any
polythene bags on their long route to and from Haridwar, this Maha Shivratri. For the third time in past three years,
Uttar Pradesh government has recently banned polythene. The students took away the plastic bags – that the kanwariyas were using, and replaced them with cloth bags. Those bags were disposed properly by the Cantonment authorities.
The school authorities got over 1,000 cloth bags made with messages of ‘Polythene-free Meerut’ and ‘Beti Bachao, Pedh Lagao’ being printed on them.
Nirupam Kumar Gupta, coordinator who headed the initiative, said, “The cloth bags were distributed by the school students to the kanwariyas to ensure that they do not dispose any plastic bags. In fact, some of them who were carrying polythene bags took to cloth bags provided by the children, almost immediately.”
Nearly 60 students and 10 teachers from Kendriya Vidyalaya (Sikh Lines) were given the task of distribution of cloth bags at the Tank Crossing near Company Garden. The students and staff members reached on cycles from their school. Some students of Kendriya Vidyalaya (Punjab Lines) also assisted in the initiative.
The school authorities got over 1,000 cloth bags
