Three day workshop by PU concludes

Chandigarh, April 26, 2018: Department of Life Long Learning & Extension, Panjab University, Chandigarh in collaboration with Rural Environment Enterprises Development Society (REEDS) organized a three day workshop on utilizing the waste by creativity and imagination at Government Model High School, Sector-25, Chandigarh with effect from 24th to 26th April, 2018.
The workshop was inaugurated by Mr.Saubhagya Vardhan, Director, North Zone Culture Centre, Punjab. While speaking on the occasion, he said that waste should be used
innovatively and fruitfully to get better results. He gave a call to students to make environment clean by resisting the usage of plastic bags.
Dr Prabha Vig, Chairperson, Department of Life Long Learning & Extension, P.U. said that using of waste material in day to day applications demands originality and thoughtfulness on behalf of students. She enlightened the participants that how with their mental agility and originative techniques they can fruitfully use the waste material into the material which have usage in their day to day living. She further briefed the participants that this skill of modification of waste to useful material
will help them to build human relations by gifting to their friends, relatives, brother and sister, which will also help them to save money and side by side help them to generate and supplement income for their families.
Dr. Lamba, Anthropologist, CEO, REEDS, encouraged students to follow-up this workshop learning as a hobby which could ultimately help them to develop it as a skill of sustenance.
The experts for the workshop were Ms. Santosh, Ms. Jyotsna and Ms. Kanchan.
Certificates were distributed to the participants on the last day of the workshop.
More than 30 students belonging to the weaker segment of society took part in the workshop.