Social/Eco point system

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Me and my group from NSE India used to go on long treks into the jungles and one day we thought, wait ! We are the employee's of the foremost stock exchange in the country, bright brains and we are wasting so much fossil fuel on our cars to come for this trek, shame on us. It was start of the monsoon and we decided we will plant 2 trees per people in our group. On our next trek we went to a nursery got good combination of evergreen and seasonal trees and planted them at the rest house we were staying. We know 2 trees per person is very less and we should have done more (and we will do more) but the main theme of my topic is that when you plant trees you get a feeling to nurture it and protect it. So whenever you people go on a long drive or on treks or on vacation, take few saplings with you or better way buy it from local nursery. You just need to dig a small pit and plant the tree and put some water of-course. So many people go on treks every year, millions go on pilgrimage, if on en-route we find a unused land why not plant a tree on it and fulfill our obligations.

My question to my fellow Junta is can we push for a social/eco point systems in our education systems so that school / college kids can be identified by not only their brains but also their social activities !!

Involving young minds in such activities can help them identify their responsibilities as a future citizen of the country and also improve the love for conservation.

This idea has already been implemented in many parts of the country but giving them academic points can increase the seriousness in such activities. Like 100 social/eco points for graduating from your college. These social points can be extended to voluntary activities like helping the old age, teaching at night schools, garbage pickup activities, small restoration work at historical sites, etc. Activities should differ according to the age group.

This can be included as a part of picnic activities that most of the school undertake and even the school can arrange for pickups to many sites (provided there is some arrangement in school or someone like municipal corporations/zilla parishad/government/ngo's etc. fund these activities).

This activity can nonetheless be extended to corporate world as well with so many software/IT/Manufacturing firms having young and enthusiastic people like us can undertake such activities on a large scales.

In the end the number of trees planted may not be that high but my intention is to create awareness among young minds. I am sitting in US getting a Graduate degree and I was shocked to see our fellow Desi Junta sending me harsh emails when I sent them www.greenidol.in petition, calling me a spammer and the petition a spam and saying they are not interested in such activities. So what can poor Dr. Manmohan Singh do when bright people of our nation who are doing Phd are disregarding such a great cause?












Disclaimer: This is my first blog and may not be so good in wordings and written in hurry, so please bear with it and try to absorb my feelings and comments are always welcome!