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Chandigarh, December 17 2021
The Institution Innovation Council and Department of Environment Science at Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh organised Just a Minute Idea Competition on the theme ‘Stubble Burning’. The competition sought to draw attention to the menace of stubble burning and motivate students to come up with innovative ideas to deal with it.
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The participants shared various ideas for the control of stubble burning like procuring of stubble from farmer for a price to be used as cattle fodder, diverting excess workers to the agricultural fields to weed out the crop residues, converting crop residue into manure by accelerating the decomposition process, compost making from crop residue, using stubble for packaging of fragile material like glass and crockery, making biodegradable cutlery, paper and carboard, and so on. Three best entries were awarded cash prizes.
Principal Dr. Nisha Bhargava highlighted the importance of this initiative by saying that pollution from stubble burning poses a serious risk to the health and safety of people. She asserted that finding practical, effective, and sustainable solutions to curb the practice is critical.
The results of the competition are:
1st: Muskaan Lamba (MA Economics II)
2nd: Bhavika Mehta (BSc II)
3rd: Dhanu (BCom II)
Consolation: Simar (BA I), Yashika (BCom I)
