The conclave started with Bittu Sahgal, an Environmental Activist addressing the school students gathered and telling them about the importance of environment. According to him, speaking up for the cause of the environment is the first step to making India better. He said that while working to make India better, children should follow Gandhiji's ideology, before you do anything ask yourself if your act will help the poorest or poor. Talking about the role of government, Mr Sahgal said, they should focus on ensuring a healthier environment for children.
In an open house session, Behtar India Campaign Ambassador, Sushant Singh Rajput interacted with students and asked them to follow their heart and do what they really can do well to succeed. He expressed his concern over the growing plastic menace and said technology should be used to tackle plastic waste.
Another panelist of the youth icon session - Malavath Poorna, a mountaineer, is the youngest girl to reach the summit of Mount Everest. According to her, every student should follow this commandment: 'I shall never give up.'
She said, "I have followed this to summit Everest. On summiting Everest, I felt I have done everything and showed that girls can do anything in life."
Gunmeet Bindra, Principal of Welham Boys' School, Dehradun, in her keynote speech, she said that educationists should imbibe compassion, care and concern for the problems faced by the country, among students.
She concluded that the time is right to do the right things and build a future where India will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, where dengue will be a thing of the past.
NDTV in partnership with Luminous has launched an awareness campaign ‘Be A Bijli Donor’ to promote the idea of ‘save power for more power’. The idea is to conserve energy today in order to get more power tomorrow.
We inherently know that saving energy results in low energy bills, but we also need to understand that a unit of energy saved today makes it available for people still living in the dark or facing regular power cuts.
Saving power or conserving energy is about knowing the sources of energy, and areas of wastage and thereby eliminating these through technology and lifestyle changes. For instance, a 100 W (Watt) incandescent (ICL) bulb can be replaced with a 9 W LED bulb offering similar performance in terms of light output, but at far lower consumption of energy.
While a 100 W ICL bulb, used for four hours a day, consumes 146 units of energy per year, a 9 W LED bulb requires only 13.5 units per year. Clearly, switching to LED is a smart choice as it provides the same output while consuming 90 per cent less energy.
The focus of the campaign is to instill the idea of ‘save power for more power’ and in order to do so, the initiative will create awareness about energy efficient products and services, smart ways to reduce power consumption, alternate sources of energy like solar energy and the need to conserve energy. The idea is to address the rising need for energy conservation in India.
As part of the campaign, we will highlight the stories of individuals and organisations who are championing the cause of energy conservation by switching to renewable sources of energy, adopting innovations to reduce energy consumption while enjoying the same output. The initiative will provide a platform for all stakeholders to share their ideas and work towards the common goal of, ‘Save power for more power’.