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My Clean Meerut
On the 1st of November, 2010 Mr Remco Van Santen came to Meerut to inspire the city to be part of something beautiful that started in Nainital four years ago.
A meeting of interested persons in Meerut was held on the evening of the 1st. The meeting included: Amit Mohan, Dr. R.B. Singh, Ex Maj. (Dr.) Himanshu, Dr. Poonam Devdutt, Mrs. Archna Gupta, Mrs Ruchira Singh, Lalit Tara, Priity Singh, Rajeeve Kumar, Ms. Anivita Agarwal, Ms. Sudha Kumari, Sarika Garg, Vishant Chawdary, Manju Gupta, Lt.(Dr.) Avdhesh Kumar, Matthew Shanley, Dr. Anurag Singh, Ainta Rana. Mr. Remco Van Santen along with Anita Rana chaired the Meeting. On the 2nd Mr. Remco and Janhit Foundation gave presentations to two schools, Devan Public School and Army Public School. In both schools there were highly enthusiastic students and equally supportive and pragmatic teachers. We also visited the City Magistrate of Meerut; Mr Praven Mishra and the Chief Development Officer; Mr Pranjal Yadar
My Clean India (MCI) is a not for profit concept promoting the empowerment of self and your community This was Mr. Remco’s fourth visit to Meerut, in the past he met with the Late Sh. Anil Rana. And it is his vision that is being carried forth by Mr Remco and Janhit Foundation
We ask you, dear reader to support My Clean and My Clean Meerut specifically by actively taking pride in you city, promoting good initiatives and taking small steps in your own way. A Beautiful, prosperous Meerut is in your hands.
Watch this space, a big step of action will be happening in Meerut shortly
Read More on My Clean India Page
My Clean Meerut in Photographs
Beauty & Prosperity through Community
Instilling leadership among young people & creating a team of people responsible for their actions and able to inspire others.
Janhit Foundation has launched the ‘My Clean Meerut’ campaign which aims to reach the people the Meerut City and inspire them to show their love and pride for the environment. This is an association with ‘My Clean India’, a campaign which was embarked on by Mr. Remco Van Santen from Australia. It was from Nainital that he lighted the spark in the minds of people and joining hands with others like Janhit Foundation in solidarity the campaign is moving ahead in 17 cities of India with about 35 million people joining. The campaign being launched in Meerut is another step towards a better India through promoting the spirit of UN Agenda 21, 25. The youth have so much to offer.
My Clean Meerut encourages people to take personal responsibility and by that, together finding ways to keep their environment clean and green. This campaign is not just about less litter and rubbish although that is very important but also for cleaner air, cleaner water, cleaner soil, and even a cleaner mind and relationships.
Broadly, there are two key aspects to My Clean Meerut.
•It focuses on community achievements to inspire to create sustainable change.
•It focuses on the problems but also aim to show the innovative, successful and inspirational achievements and promote dreams of what could be accomplished.
What’s Special About It?
Traditionally, we focus on identifying problems and then listing the resources (and money) required to fix them. This results in dependency and no responsibility for the problem. When the money dries up, the problem recurs.
This campaign is about Appreciative Inquiry i.e. shift from problem solving to building on the solutions and positives such as achievements and our community strengths and skills.
We do not use the word “should” and “try”. Again and again we just point fingers to problems. But what actually would work is an acknowledgement and appreciation of people power and local solutions and efforts being made, looking at what is working; what is not working; and what is necessary to make it happen.
My Clean Police Station
Cleanliness is Godliness!!!!!
So is said about Cleanliness. To remind the citizens of Meerut of this, a segment which has been targeted this time as a part of ‘My Clean Meerut’ campaign is the Police Department, the keepers of law. It started with a random survey of 12 police stations of Meerut with due permission from the D.I.G., Meerut. The survey was analysed and the best three were chosen to be awarded. 16th of March, 2010 was a red letter day in the history of police stations of Meerut when awards were presented to the deserving clean police stations by Mr. O.P. Singh (I.G. – PTS, Meerut), Mr. Akhil Kumar (D.I.G., Meerut) and Mr. Pranjal Yadav (CDO, Meerut) in a jampacked conference room at police line. The award programme was co-partnered and the trophies were sponsored by Tata Indicom. The awards were presented to Nauchandi Police Station (Ist prize), Delhi Gate Police Station (2nd prize) and Lalkurti Police Station (3rd prize) in the presence of many dignitaries like senior officials of Tata Indicom, Dr. Manju Gupta (Professor at Meerut College and a Social Worker), Mr. Alok Tiwari (SDM, Sadar) and a host of all the police station incharges and the personnel from Media. Janhit Foundation humbly received accolades from the delegates and was motivated to take the project further.
My Clean School
• My Clean Meerut and My Clean School working together. Here we look how My Clean School investigates and creates opportunities to work with My Clean Meerut to promote those who make the environment more prosperous and beautiful.
• The United Nations has Agenda 21 that promotes the youth for caring for the environment. The youth, with their vigour and independence can look objectively to what can be done. The represent energy while at same time, develop their leadership skills.
• MCS enables the schools to be role models for their communities in cleanliness and by interacting with the community, for the students to practice leadership and innovation. Progressive Inquiry is a three step process the students can employ to identify what could be done.
• Progressive Inquiry is used by My Clean School and is in three steps.
o What is liked.
o What is not liked.
o What needs to happen.
This represents an opportunity for students to work with the community and practice leadership.
• Progressive Inquiry is a progressive which uses the scholastic background of the students to explore the community and to identify the opportunities for action and those that are making a difference – the champions.
To read more about this campaign, please click here.
Inter School Competitions Organised
As a part of 'My Clean Meerut', Janhit Foundation had organised Inter-school Essay Writing, Debate and Poster Making Competition. About 16 schools participated in the event, with about 150 students writing essays, making posters and speaking on the issue of My Clean Meerut. This included participation of not only CBSE schools but government schools and colleges; and schools from rural areas too. The competition was organised on November 29th and 30th, 2009 in the premises of Sanatan Dharma Inter College, Meerut.
- Impact
The clear and positive spirit of the competition influenced the schools and we got a very good participation from most of the schools.
The participation was with all the spirits high, with all the enthusiasm and vision the young eyes carry within them.
It is true that only few won the prizes but all the participants were appreciated and encouraged by giving away a certificate from the foundation. So that they don’t stop thinking about the environment.
- Topics for the Competition
o Essay Writing: ‘Main apne shahar Meerut ki zameen, pani aur hawa ko saaf banane ke liye kya krna chahta/chahti hu, main ye kaise krunga/karungi?’
o Poster Making: ‘Apne shahar Meerut ki zameen, pani aur hawa ko saaf banane ke liye ‘mujhe’
kya krna hoga?’
o Debate Competition: ‘Mere shahar Meerut ki zameen, pani aur hawa ko saaf banana kya sarkar ki zimmedaari hai ya meri khud ki?’
For : ‘Meri apni zimmedaari hai.’
Against : ‘Sarkar aur prashaasan ki zimmedari hai.’
- Winners
1. Debate:
o Ist – Nisha Gulpham of Meerut Public Girls School (Senior)
Somya of Delhi Public School (Junior)
o 2nd – Khushmani Kaur of Delhi Public School (Senior)
Suraj Singh of D. N. Inter College (Junior)
o 3rd – Shwetanki of Meerut Public School (Senior)
Sanjeev Kumar of Army School (Junior)
2. Essay Writing:
o 1st – Ekta Kumari of Army School (Senior)
Ishika Bansal of Meerut Public School (Junior)
o 2nd – Shivani Godara of Meerut Public School (Senior)
Rimjhim Sharma of R. G. College (Junior)
o 3rd – Ashish Gupta of S. D. Inter College (Senior)
Shalini of R. G. College (Junior)
3. Poster Competition:
o 1st – Priya Tyagi of Army Public School (Senior)
Joy Verma of Meerut Public Girls School (Junior)
o 2nd – Adiba of Meerut Public Girls School (Senior)
Akansha of R. G. College (Junior)
o 3rd – Shalini of Kanya Inter College, Daurala (Senior)
Sman Singh of Army Public School (Junior)
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