BALA PARISTHITHI CONGRESS-2010 (WETLANDS & MAN)

            District level BALA PARISTHITHI CONGRESS-2010 was held in our school by VANASHREE Nature Club. Many schools in the district participated in the Congress. The Congress was inaugurated by Divisional Forest Officer(Nilambur South)S.Unnikrishnan.  He told that along with planting tree sapling it is the need of the hour to plant vegetables also in our gardens to have a healthy living.  ACF (Nilambur North) Ratheesh was also present in the occasion.  Panchayath President Sri.Hameed Haji Inaugurated the Photo exhibition.  More than 500 photos was displayed by various agencies like Silent Valley National Park, WWF, Agro Friends, CISSA(Centre for Innovation in Science & Social Action), Vanashree Nature Club, Forest Department etc.  

Painting, Quiz & Essay writing competitions were held for U.P, High School & Higher Secondary School.  Painting & essay writing were conducted on the theme ‘Wetlands & man’.  Quiz was conducted in two rounds, i.e. oral round & multimedia round. 

            Food was provided for the participating students.  After the lunch students of our club presented poems and songs related to environment.  Tony Thomas, Environmentalist inaugurated the session on Wetlands.  The various threats to environment and in particular to Wetlands were discussed in his multimedia presentation.  Various actions that can be initiated were discussed.  Rajendran, Parishad activist and environmentalist, asked the students to start firm & specific movements to protect the wetlands.  He spoke of such a movement to protect the ‘Kotta Puzha’, in the nearby Chokkad. Dr.Balakrishnan, showed a short film on Wetlands from BBC’s Nature first series.  The show was so magnificent that the students almost forget about the time. 

The closing session was inaugurated by Wandoor M.L.A. Sri.A.P.Anil kumar.  He told the students the developments going on worldwide to protect the environment.  As future citizens it is their duty to fight for it.   He presented the certificates and present to the winners of the respective competitions.   ACF(Social Forestry) Malappuram Sri.Jaya Prakash told that they are ready to provide help if the school is willing to start Herbal Garden in the school.  Starting a Eco Library, help can’t be provided for the moment, but surely they will discuss it with higher officials and will surely do what can be done by them.  Panchayath President Hameed Haji, Head Master E.Bhaskaran, Principal Abdul Razaq, PTA President Hamzakutty, were actively present on the occasion.A.Vinod  welcome the guests and the vote of thanks was done by S.Prasad.  

Sri.Suneesh & Sri.Sunil.P were quiz masters.  Sri.V.C.Mohandas was the technical co-ordinator. Sri. Sivasankaran received the guests.  Scouts and Guides did a commendable job in receiving guests, serving food, & in the exhibition hall.   

1 st State Bala Krishi Sashtra Congress 2010

3 Students from our school attended the 1 st State Bala Krishi Sashtra Congress 2010 held at Central Library, Trivandrum on 22 & 23 January 2010. we presented the fate of rice at karuvarakundu. the area under cultivation reduced drastically that it is near zero level. the ground water level also went low, lot of vegetables had to be imported, caused unemployment. the remedies lie in the farming area itself, alternate areas had to be explored. Rashid from +1 was the student who presented this to the audience. we also presented the method of farming mushroom in the school. Noorul Ameen(7 std) presented the various stages of cultivating this and also about the economy in doing this agriculture. he did this in an energetically manner. Anto Thomas(8 std) presented the posters related to agriculture.

PARAMBIKULAM CAMP

25 students of our club participated in the Parmbikulam Nature camp on 23 & 24 of December. it was a New year gift to us. We got lot of opportunity to see the wild life in the sanctuary. we also had the opportunity to see the controversial Parambikulam & Thoonakadavu Reservoirs. In this picture you can see us posing in front of the famous Kannimara Teak, which is believed to be the biggest natural teak in the world. The staff of the park requires special mention, we feel heart felt thanks to them for the kind co-operation provided to us. We got lot of information from the field staff, the quiz competition held there also gave us opportunity to conclude the trip.  

Dr.Sathish Chandran speaks to students

Dr.Sathish Chandran, Dr.S.Shanthi( Environmentalists) & S.Shivadas, (Silent Valley DFO) Visited our school on 15^th of December, 2009.  They had an interesting interaction with the students.  Sathish told that he feel much sorry about the present state of Karuvarakundu.  When he visited this place 30 yrs back, it was so rich in diversity and agriculture.  But today all lost in the flow of time.  The hot air blowing from down the valley dries up the forest up the hills.  So we have to plant more trees, so that the air will be cooler, which will result in more showers.  He talked about various aspects of nature protection.  He also asked us to start a Eco-Library, which will help to quench our thirst for knowledge.