A school in Seva Bigha of Bodh Gaya in Bihar’s Gaya district has asked children to regularly bring plastic waste from their homes and put them in dustbins placed near the school gate. Padampani School does not charge any fee from the children. The primary reason behind this is to keep Bodh Gaya clean.
The school expenses are met by selling the waste collected by the students. Any plastic waste brought by the children from home or on the way has to be thrown in the dustbin outside the school. Later this waste is sent for recycling. The money collected by selling garbage is spent on children’s education, food, clothes and books.
Bodh Gaya is a place where thousands of devotees from all over the country and abroad reach every day. To make the area clean and beautiful and to please the visitors and to keep plastic pollution away because plastic is very harmful for the environment and it causes climate change, so such initiative was taken by the school to reduce the pollution Is.
In this way, this school is setting an example for environmental protection. Also there is no electricity connection in the school. The entire school is powered by solar energy which is another step towards environmental protection.
Established in the year 2014, Padampani School provides education to the children from class 1 to 8 and this school is recognized by the Government of Bihar. Today around 250 children from poor families attend this school and they are provided with better education and culture. The special thing about this school is that along with free education and food, books and stationery are also provided free of cost. However, in lieu of tuition fees, children are asked to bring garbage scattered on the way from home to school.
Sonu Kumar and Sandeep Kumar, students of Padampani School, have told News18 that instead of tuition fees, we have to bring plastic waste from home or road and throw it in the dustbin because plastic is harmful to the environment. School’s HM Meera Kumari says that the main motive behind taking school fees as garbage is to make children feel responsible. So that they can be aware of the dangers of global warming and environment from childhood.
They also aim to maintain cleanliness around the historical heritage. Every year millions of tourists from all over the world come here. He also said that his thinking is proving to be effective. Not only this, 10th pass unemployed girls and women are also given free sewing training in this school, so that the women of rural areas can become self-reliant and feed their families.
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