Mysore: Kautilya Vidyalaya emerged as one of the prestigious award winners for Wipro earthian awards for sustainability efforts of students. Over 55,000 schools and colleges, 1,30,000 students and 13,000 teachers from across the country were part of the programme. Ten schools and eight colleges were selected for the annual Wipro earthian awards for 2019, which were presented on Saturday 08.02.2020.
Anurag Behar, chief sustainability officer, Wipro, said the programme brings together the themes of sustainability and education in meaningful ways. “The programme helps stimulate curiosity and interest in young minds in critical areas of sustainability. This edition involved outreach to schools and colleges across 29 States and three Union Territories, including remote locations such as Ladakh, Sunderbans, Majuli island, Little Rann of Kutch, and the Nicobar Islands,” he said.
The teams selected from schools had to demonstrate their understanding of biodiversity, waste and water through a combination of activity-based learning programmes and essays.
Students of Kautilya Vidyalaya to win this prestigious award are Shreya Krishnan, Anirudh Krishna, Amogh Bharadwaj, Debanghshree Chakraborthy and Chidatma Chagant from the high school. They worked with pourakarmikas in Mysuru and various agencies and NGOs working on waste management and helped create awareness about segregation at source and the ban on using plastic. Based on the experience they say that there needs to be a change in people’s behaviour to reduce and reuse waste. The students were mentored by teachers: Ms.Roopa, Ms.Krishna, Ms.Nivedita and Mr.Paul. The award was presented by none other than Mr.Rishad Premji s/o Mr.Azim Premji.
