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Children astatine a schoolhouse connected a smoggy morning, successful Mansa connected Monday. (Reuters)
The Punjab acquisition section Monday directed the territory acquisition officers (DEOs) and schoolhouse heads to instrumentality “bagless day” for students erstwhile each period adjacent arsenic authorities Health Minister Dr Balbir Singh said 20 lakh students from schools and colleges successful authorities volition beryllium trained successful detecting dengue larvae and providing archetypal aid.
According to an bid issued by Amninder Kaur Brar, director, State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), the students from people 6 to 8 successful state-run schools volition observe “bagless day” connected past Saturday each month, and connected that day, teachers volition absorption connected “experiential learning” and “out of schoolroom exposure.”
It further says that teachers person to guarantee that students are engaged successful meaningful activities. Teachers person been issued a format which they person to capable explaining the activities undertaken connected the bagless day. They besides person to taxable the photographs of students portion participating successful those activities to the caput bureau successful Chandigarh.
The acquisition section has besides issued a database of suggestive activities which schools tin undertake connected the time students won’t transportation bags and books. These include: Visit to monuments, museums, subject parks etc; inter-class quizzes, “best retired of waste” crafts, embroidery similar phulkari, transverse stitch; seminars connected hygiene and cleanliness, euphony and taste activities, situation and greening activities, Value and bid education, communicative telling, kite making, scrapbook creation, consciousness connected cyber security, animation and graphics, origami, doodling, robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), poesy recitation among others.
Meanwhile, chairing a reappraisal gathering connected vector-borne diseases astatine the Ludhiana Civil Hospital, Minister Balbir Singh highlighted the interaction of nursing students successful the government’s anti-dengue initiative, which, helium said, led to a 70 per cent alteration successful dengue cases this year.
Starting adjacent year, the wellness section volition amended 20 lakh students, including those successful elder secondary classes and colleges, connected identifying dengue larvae and contributing to assemblage prevention efforts. Students volition besides larn to supply archetypal assistance aid to those successful need, helium said.
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