Haritha Nature Club Inauguration 2021-22

 1.INAUGURATION AND WORLD WETLAND DAY OBSERVANCE

Official inauguration of various activities under Haritha Nature Club and Blue Army Club of NSS TRAINING COLLEGE, OTTAPALAM for the academic year 2021-22 was held on 02-02-2022, Wednesday, in observance with World  Wetland Day.

1.1 INAUGURATION DETAILS:

The programme was conducted in collaboration with college IQAC in online platform and the chief guest of the programme was Smt. C. Sharmila, HST Natural Science, GHSS, Pattikad, Malappuram, Kerala, who won the title, Vanamithra Award-2021, by The State Forest Department and various other recognitions including Mathrubhumi SEED -Best Teacher Coordinator Award. The Inauguration and Keynote address was done by the honourable guest.

The programme was scheduled in two sessions and the first session include Inaugural Ceremonies and Webinar. In this, welcome speech was delivered by Dr. Sheeba Krishnan, Nature club and Blue Army Club Coordinator and the programme was presided over by, Prof.(Dr.)Ampili Aravind, Principal NSS Training College, Ottapalam. Felicitations were offered by, Dr. K S Sajan (IQAC Coordinator), Dr. Lekshmi V(Staff advisor and Nature club Convener),Sri. Akhil K Sreedhar (Staff Secretary) and Sri.Anathakrishnan K(College Union Chairman).

1.2 WEBINAR CONTENT:

In addition to Inauguration and Key note address, webinar was  delivered by our resource person, Smt. Sharmila Madam on the topic,” Nature Conservation through MIYAWAKI afforestation”. The webinar deals with the concept of  afforestation through Miyawaki  a technique pioneered by Japanese Botanist Akira Miyawaki, that helps to build dense, native forest in a short time which has revolutionized the concept of urban afforestation by turning backyards in to miniforests.

This method includes planting trees as close as possible in the same area which is not only saves space, but ensure that the planted tree saplings can support each other. The saplings then become self sustainable after the first three years. The approach also ensures that plant growth is ten times faster and the resulting plantation is thirty times denser than usual. So by this webinar, it is found to be know that, Miyawaki method helps to create a forest in just twenty to thirty years ,while conventional methods need two hundred to three hundred years.

Also, details of other methods were also delivered by our resource person including,

· Pathayora Vanavalkkaranam

· Nakshathra Vanam

· Butterfly garden

· Bamboo forest

This webinar is fruitful as it deals with many methods which focus on afforestation and for nature conservation. Vote of thanks was done by Krishna A V(Nature Club Student Coordinator).