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plantation. Each student was given responsibility to take care of the plant. The students took a
keen interest and within a short period of three years the school area developed in a lush green
campus. The students not only took care of plants at the school but also they planted at other
public places and at their their homes. Today we have more than 700 grown up trees and other
plants and 70 varieties of plants (trees, shrubs, creepers and air plants) in the school campus. I
wanted to beautify the building with decorative plants. I encouraged one donor to donate for 50
flower pots. We went to a private nursery and purchased 50 flower pots at Rs 7500/. It was a big
amount and we could accommodate 50 decorative plants and a very small area of the building. I
once happened to visit a campus of Brahmakumaris at Abu Road there I saw thousands of flower
pots, I inquired and found that these people made flower pots. I immediately decided to learn
flower pot making. That day itself I learnt flower pot making with Sand and cement. I shared it
with my staff, students and parents. I purchased six flower pots of plastic and motivated donors
to donate for sand (bajari) and cement. The plastic flower pots were used as frames to make other
flower pots with Sand and cement. Some students also learnt pot making.We got an
overwhelming response from all the stake holders of my school. This practice of ours was
appreciated by the department and other schools also. Today we have more than 400 flower pots
at school without spending even a single penny from school budget. (Photographs attached)

 We have designed prayer assembly session as a very good tool of learning where each
and every student and teacher gets an opportunity to come on the stage. We have divided 6 days
in three parts. Two days in English, two days in Hindi and two days in Sanskrit. Everyday new
class and 10 new students get opportunity to conduct the assembly. A class of 40 students has
been divided in four groups of 10 students. On the first working day of every month we all the
teachers conduct the assembly eg. Anchoring, singing the prayer, speaking thought of the day,
asking GK question, commentary for meditation, speaking the pledge. Things like prayer,
pledge, thought, meditation commentary, GK questions and students talk are spoken in the
language decided for the day. This is how we have developed the assembly as a very good tool
of learning languages and personality development.

 Keeping in mind the scarcity of water in mind we decided to find out ways of saving
water. I designed a water camphor stand and kept it in front of all the class rooms. Thus we
reduced crowd of students during intervals and wastage of water at drinking water point. The
water that drops while dispensing gets accumulated in the pot and is used to water flower pots
(Photos attached). The students grew sensitive towards judicious use of water.

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 There are 250 students upto 8 class who eat MDM at school. About 250 litres of water
was being used or rather wasted to wash plates after eating. I purchased five water pots and used
them for washing plates as shown in the photographs. The students were made aware about
saving water and cleanliness. They were asked to come in queues after having lunch. The first
pot was used to drop remaining of food if any. The second pot is filled with washing powder
mixed water. The third, fourth and fifth pots are filled with simple water. The students wash their
plates coming in queues and after that they rub their plates with cotton cloths. The water is used
for watering plants after washing the plates. This is how we save about 250 litres of water from

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