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Sulochanadevi Singhania School on November 24.Over the past 10 days, nine schools—including Dnyanasadhana College, Carmel High School, S.M.G English School, MES Crescent English High School, Narayana School, Saraswati Secondary School, Saraswati School (Rabodi), Saraswati School (Ghodbundar) and M.H High School have signed up to join this movement.“It’s been just 10 days since the campaign was launched and we already have nine schools and colleges with a student strength of over 10,000. We now want to set an example for our students and show them how we can segregate and manage our own waste,” said a teacher from M H High school.The NGO feels that more schools will join their movement in the days to come. During the orientation, they will discuss the roles of each school.While the main focus of this movement is to help city schools reduce, reuse and recycle, it will also include the Smiles or Safety for miles campaign wherein the registered schools will adopt a kilometer of a road in the vicinity and ensure that the road safety rules are followed there.“We keep speaking about the importance of cleanliness in schools. The digital platform has helped us get all these institutions together under one roof and take strategic steps without wasting any time,” Dr. Lata Ghanshamnani, founder of an NGO R-Nisarg, said.The NGO has arranged the first orientation programme on December 13; wherein they will go through the first steps of both waste management and road safety. THANE: In an attempt to transform their educational institutions into a zero waste one and instil the habit of cleanliness and road safety in their students, as many nine city schools and colleges have joined in the recently-launched pan-city Prarambh movement.After observing that their zero-waste drive in three city schools reduced 50 tonnes of waste at the landfill in the past four years, city-based NGO R-Nisarg decided to make this a pan-city movement.They then kick-started a project, Prarambh, with the help of Smt.
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