A group of 1,000 female school students
will head out to various areas of the city and distribute newspaper bags to local
vendors promoting ‘plastic free India’ and urging them to use paper bags over
plastic on Tuesday morning.
The students from St Raphael’s Higher
Secondary School have prepared 80,000 paper bags from newspapers to raise this
cause. The bags were prepared by every student with the help of art teachers
studying in nursery to class XII.
Identifying 13 major markets including Ranipura,
Dawa Bazar, Chawwani, Rajwada and Kothari market, the team of girls will be on
this drive prior to Gandhi Jayanti. “We need to inculcate lessons and drive
changes, as it is the true meaning of education,” Sr Jancy Joseph, school
principal, said.
She added that making and distributing
paper bags was their academic year’s target for driving social change. “We had
initially a target of preparing 1,00,000 paper bags, but due to examinations
and delays, we were only able to prepare 80,000, but still this will be a good
lesson for students,” Jancy said.
Officials from Indore Municipal
Corporations are also supporting the drive and will be a part of the inaugural ceremony
including commissioner Asheesh Singh on Tuesday.