Shailja with Hon'ble Dr. APJ Abdul KalamThe program started with the felicitation ceremony of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam by Shri Jairam Ramesh (honorable minister for environment and forests of the state government).Dr Kalam very humbly explained the children importance of planting trees and gave the MOTTO ‘Billion trees for Billion people’. He took the oath along with the children for planting at least 10 saplings and nature them throughout.
The children had many queries regarding climate change so Shailja Sharma of class XII asked Dr Kalam “will India be able to control its carbon dioxide emissions and at the same time not compromise with the development”.
Dr Kalam answered that it all depends upon the young generation sitting here ‘and they would be able to sustain the environment’. He said we are the weather makers. So we decide what type of weather we want. He wanted to satisfy every individuals queries so he gave his personal E-mail ID also. He presented a sapling to each school.
