The 4th Friday of 2018’ August embarked an interactive Guest Lecture on importance of water conservation and its implementation.
‘Jal Chaupal’ a well-known gathering for Water Conservation was organised by Rotaract Club of JIMS-EMTC, Greater Noida. The resource person for this event were Mr. Ramveer Tanwar and Mr. Vikrant Tongad, who bestowed students with their wisdom on need and ways to preserve water and water bodies. The event started at 1.30 P.M. at Multi-Purpose Hall situated in B.Ed./B.C.A. Block of our college. The event started with honouring our guests with Bouquet of flowers by our Previous club President Mr. Swetabh. This was followed by inviting Mr. Vikrant Tongad to the stage.
Vikrant Tongad is a self-trained environmental conservationist. He started showing inclination towards social work as early as his graduation days. He started working for conservation of environment, water and educating people about it in the year 2010 because the water table of Noida and Gr. Noida was depleting at a fast rate. Mr. Vikrant encouraged students to participate more and more in water saving activities, he explained his vision of implementing water-waste free homes. Students were introduced to a Society called SAFE (Social Action for Forest and Environment). He encouraged students to join societies like SAFE and contribute at least 1-2 hours a week working towards water conservation and spreading awareness.
The Stage was followed by our second resource person Mr. Ramveer Tanwar.
Mr. Ramveer Tanwar, who is an Environmentalist, had been passionate about water conservation during his days as a B. Tech student. During his graduate years, Mr. Tanwar had begun a campaign in Gautam Budhha Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh, urging people to conserve water and to save natural resources like ponds and lakes. ThisInitiative led to the district magistrate recognizingRamveer’s initiative and officially commemorating it by naming it the ‘Jal Chaupal. Mr. Ramveer today, is the appointed district co-coordinator of the 'BhujalSena'initiative by the government of Uttar Pradesh. This helps reaching out to larger numbers ofpeoples. Mr. Tanwar explained the disappearance of Wetlands in Gautam Budh Nagar. He quoted “Initially there were 702 wetlands in Greater Noida and they are reduced to just 6”.He showed with help of Presentation that how Wetlands were affected He further explained that how absence of Wetlands effects our biodiversity.
Mr. Tanwar showed students that Jal-chaupal is an innovative way to include the common masses and make them aware of existential water crisis of the world. The Guest lecture concluded with Mr. Tanwar encouraging students to go and visit Wetlands and Start small but effective initiatives to prevent water loss.
At the end of Lectures by both of our Resource persons a Momento was awarded by our New Club President Miss. Vanshika to our Guests as token of love and respect with hope that, They will remember our hospitality for rest of their life.
Investitures Ceremony started next, all the Winners, Runners-Up, Organisers and Volunteers were awarded certificate of appreciation by our Mr. Dhruv Singh, Mr. Nitin Tyagi, Mr Sandeep Gupta and Mr. Chandrashekar for the following events:
- Swach Bharat Abhiyan
- Rotary Blood Bank
- Debate Competition
- Poster Making Competition
The ending of event was marked by Vote of Thanks.