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1. Buoyed by the success of this is separate herbal garden with 16 herbs is maintained with the
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support of class 8 students. The art teacher and students ensured that the herbal garden has an
aesthetic look. There were not too many challenges to maintain them because the garden is located
within the campus.
2. Once these two were in place, the thought of maintaining a floral garden, with the help of class 6
children was put in place next to the school building itself. Now the kitchen garden is coming up
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with the maintenance taken up by class 7 students.
3. A good plant in such a terrain with less soil lacks nutrients. Hence the need for good fertilizer was
thought of. Having done so much to keep the campus in the laps of Nature, the idea of chemical
fertilizers was nauseating. Vermi-composting was the result and it provides adequate nutrients for
the floral and kitchen gardens.

4. It is in this background that Kendriya Vidyalaya Bagalkot has been conferred with
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HarithVidyalaya award for the current year. Though 3 in the region this year it has to be noted
that this greenery was achieved in about one and a half years and in comparison to campuses that
are 45/50 year old.

5. In creating awareness at a larger scale, students were discouraged from distributing
sweets/toffees/chocolates wrapped in polythene paper and instead were encouraged to distribute
desi sweets made of groundnut and jaggery or sesame seeds and jaggery. This reduced the
quantum of poly paper and also enlightened the students to support our farming community.

6. As said earlier, the Vidyalaya lacks proper play facilities. With the involvement of parents a
children‘s play park has been prepared after making the area playable by filling with silt obtained
from the Deputy Director of Mines. A similar court for practicing Kabaddi is prepared and students
come on Sundays too preparing a kabaddi team to represent at the Regional Sports meet. The
quadrangle within the campus has been marked for badminton.

7. A new building both a blessing and a liability. Huge but empty walls never fill the minds or our
eyes. But filling them with meaningful presentation needs time, money and skilled persons. This
campus has huge walls but all were just blank. Even house notice boards and the drawings of
students are never going to be enough. Further the academic ambience will get a boost with
education related things all around the students‘ eyes. Initially started off with the outline map of
India painted on the wall with pointing of locations on a weekly basis. This enabled students to do
better map pointing in exams. This idea generated another idea of a science board where drawings
with labelled parts are presented. Each week the drawing is replaced. When the idea of trying
angles using door and the floor under, it failed. The footsteps erased the angles marked on the
floor. Once it was accidentally found out that a class IV child did not know to read a wall clock.
The same class also has a chapter on angles. Combining the two concepts a clock with angles was
drawn marked. Since the school is in a non-Hindi belt, children continue to struggle in Hindi, and
even the senior students are not comfortable with maatras. Now the idea continues to grow.
However, it was found that the young teachers were not self motivated and fresh ideas were not
coming up. It is in this context the ―snake and ladder‖ for class one students was conceived and

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