In Gujarati

BURD Introduction 2010-11

In 2010-11, BURDies will work on “How to make your School Green?”

Children will survey their own school to gauge the consumption and wastages on Energy  -  consumption pattern and Energy in Buildings , Water, Land /Biodiversity, Transportation and Waste. The resultant outcome the 3 years staritng form 2010-11 will lead to developing a blue print for Building a New School and renovating an Old School in terms of installing active and passive systems.

Harit Urjit Shala –Green School Programme will be an integrated learning process for both school children and teachers, to learn various aspects of energy conservation and efficiency of any built environment and its impact on human activity and on the environment through their own school building as a case study. The programme activities will help school audit their use of resources and map their consumption and wastages. 

The Secondary Schools enrolled under the Programme will work on a survey on the five elements:  Water, Transportation, Environment, Energy and Waste.

The programme activities will focus on generating participatory awareness on energy-saving and best energy efficient practices using hands on, real-world projects, strengthening academic learning to save energy and save money and eventually the environment and the earth.

The programme designed to inculcate behavioral change communication using IEC tools and activities.

Programme Focus

Green School is a term given to schools that are designed to be environmentally-sensitive, energy-efficient and healthy for their occupants. 

An effort to actually conduct a survey through School children them shelves, will identify ways to make their Schools green by using sustainable energy practices and technologies.

A team of 25 students will be divided to a batch of 5 each and each team will conduct survey in their own Schools on the   basic-key elements to map their own consumption and wastages through a survey methodology. One Urja Rakshak will be the Team Leader who will monitor all the 5 activities.

This year, in an initiative to spread digital literacy and to strengthen the Information Communication and Training - ICT Module, BURDies have gone high tech. An Online Teachers Training was conducted through the GUJSAT – the Online Connectivity Network in the state.   An Energy Knowledge Portal specially designed to spread knowledge and to upload children’s work on the digital platform and to generate secondary data , BURDies will work on How to make your school green? Children will survey their school resources and complete the specially designed Online Audit Datasheets along with the Learning-cum-Teaching Modules and soft edutainment activities for saving energy and ultimately the environment. The Demo Model could lead to designing a scheme for all Schools interested in Greening their Schools for replication. Through two years run of the Green Schools Programme GEDA could generate a databank of  Schools interested in going Green. 

An Interactive Session: This year another communication initiative has been implemented to  reach out to schools  an Interactive Session -  Urja Goshthi has been organized in all the BURD Schools.  The Interactive Session  will provide a brief of the BURD implementation guidelines and Street Play Performances as a communication tool will  be enacted to Urja Rakshaks and Urja Agevans in cluster of 5-6 Schools across the state to teach the concept of energy and environment.

BURD: Making a Ripple into Mass Movement: The Mega Outreach Movement since 2005 onwards 50,000 BURDies zealots have annually had lead to Energy Wise Gujarat.

BURD Implementation Methodology 2010-11

Harti-Urjit - Green School is a term given to schools that are designed to be environmentally-sensitive, energy-efficient and healthy for their occupants. 

Like every year, this year, we selected 19 NGOs working in science popularization (Community Science Centres), environment education and water conservation awareness generation programmes in the state in almost all the districts of the state.  

  • These agencies are provided with the basic implementation guidelines at the Orientation Progarmme and Biannual Meetings.
  • They enroll Schools that are interested in joining the programme.
  • A special Enrolment Form has been designed for this purpose. Soft copy of the same is attached for your reference).
  • This year the agencies were responsible to register Online through the BURD website at www.burd.org.in.
  •  A special Pre registration Form was designed and uploaded on the BURD Website.
  • Based on the Pre registration data, the NGOs were provided the target of Schools.
  • A database of Schools enrolled in the programme has been generated through dynamic web pages. (The dashboard of one of the district and a data sheet is provided for your reference please).
  • Approx 30 Reports have been generated through the dynamic web pages.
  • Guidelines for activities have been uploaded as PPTs. The other pages for knowledge sharing are under progress.
  • A Teachers Orientation Programme for 3600 Teachers has been conducted via INSAT 4CR satellite through the BISAG (Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics) Node - The GUJSAT Connectivity Network in the state.
  • An Interactive Session Urja Gosthi / Prasrarakparik Goshti  in clusters of 5-6 Schools in all the Schools enrolled under the programme was organized wherein Street Play Performances on the topics of energy conservation and global warming and the basic BURD Guidelines were provided at the 375 odd sessions constructed in BURD School across the state. A report from the district of Bhavnagar is attached for your kind reference).
  • In December the BURD Schools will participate in 144 Energy Conservation Rallies ( 1 in district head quarters + 5 at prominent Taluka Places.) Approx 40,000 Children will participate in the Rallies to spread awareness on energy conservation through placards, Press Meets and through different and innovative mode of displays. (Attach are pictures of rallies organized during 2009-10 where, 30,000 Urja Rakshaks took to streets to spread awareness on Green Schools.
  • All the students will participate in the School Activities. They will survey their own school and survey the consumption of water, energy in terms of electricity consumption and energy in buildings, transport, and land and bio diversity.
  • Data sheets of all the thematic activities have been uploaded, which BURDies will download and after filling appropriate data, will then upload them.
  • However, this year being the first year in changing the programme implementation design, we also worked parallel on the conventional methodology. As the dynamic web pages were generated through the Online Registration most of the conventional methods of monitoring and verification was finally abandoned.

Activities of the Harit-Urjit Shala Programme

The programme activities will help school audit their use of resources and map their consumption and wastages. All then activities a will revolve around the energy  component as GEDA’s  mandate is to promote and popularize renewable energy and energy efficient technologies The exercises and activities  involves collection of information, conducting surveys thorough a set of activities under the following heads:

Water, which builds an understanding of water use, on the sources of water, on the ways of water conservation – rain water harvesting and water recycling, the importance of using energy-efficient motors used for pumping, the existing sanitation facilities, with reference to ultimate aim of building energy and water literate and prudent society.

Transportation, which help schools understand their transport facilities, mode of transport children use to reach schools, policies, fuel consumption and its affect air quality and to find ways of reducing their emissions so that citizen’s right to clean air is protected.

Environment, which focuses on the land-use of schools, map the green areas, to identify bio diversity and to grasp the enormous ecological and economic value of this resource.

Energy will audit the sources of energy, consumption pattern and explore ways in which this resource can be saved to minimise pollution and costs.

Waste, helps in finding out the total amount of waste that is generated and offers ways and means to reduce it by segregation, recycling and reuse.

The theme of the Street Play should revolve around the holistic approach of save energy save earth. The effort of the BURD Programme in its initial years focused energy audit in homes and schools. And progressively in the last financial year we stepped a little further.
The Technical inputs will revolve round the 5 Survey activities that are to be executed by Urja Rakshaks and Urja Agevans at School levels in their respective districts., which could effectively provide the Technical Lessons on How to Green Your School – Harit-Urjit Shahal Banava Shun Karso to the BURD team - Urja Rakshaks  and Urja Agevans  in cluster of 5-6 Schools.  With a view to interact with Schools directly with the Schools an Energy Intervention Module is under way. The Session to be delivered in a cluster of 5-6 Schools, will deliver Street Plays across the state in a cluster of 5-6 Schools in all the districts of the state.
The resultant outcome of the database will be lead to developing a blue print for Building a New School and renovating Old Schools in terms of installing active, passive and along with the Learning-cum-Teaching Modules and soft edutainment activities for saving energy and ultimately the environment. The Demo Model could lead to designing a scheme for all Schools interested in Greening their Schools for replication. Through two years run of the Green Schools Programme GEDA could generate a databank to Schools interested in going Energy-Green.