Date: July 25-27, 2022
School team named Sahejna bagged the second runner up position and the award for the Best Social Media Engagement at the13th Youth Power finale organised online. The team comprising Class XI students, Sparsh Sahni, Anvi Chawla, Asmi Chawla and Aditi Dheer took up the cause of water conservation. In order to curb RO water wastage, the team developed a two-pot water filtration system that filters water without causing water wastage. The filtration system makes use of two earthen pots (one with tap and the other without tap), empty aerated drink pet bottle, filter paper, cheese cloth, coal/charcoal, pebbles, and sand. A team member Sparsh Sahni was also honoured by the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Water Resource, as Water Hero and awarded a cash prize of INR 10K. Prof Manish K Verma, Secretary, Indian Sociological Society and Dr Sanjiban Banerjee, Molecular Biologist and Co-founder, AbGenics Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd were the jury members of the YP.
The virtual gala of YP finale
Team Sahejna gives India its water hero
Team interacts with the jury member
Steady with strategy for water conservation