Satya Bharti School,Gurgawan

Gobar Gas mein he Dum-MDM Ka Kharcha Kam

Green Fuel Clean Fuel

With the help of the community, we were able to construct a Gobar Gas Plant.Gobar Gas will help our MDM vendor to serve us hot & fully cooked food.MDM uncle will also not complain about the Gas prices or shortage.The community has been sensitized to the importance of alternative & traditional fuel

Getting back to a few years & thinking about an Indian Village,Gobar Gas plants comes naturally to mind.Its location was normally in the front yard of village head man & was collectively owned by the whole village/community.It was representative of the village as a unit & a glaring example of cooperative culture.It provides women the time & space to sit & talk together.Its operation was well planned & managed as every one contributes in its continuity.

Story of Gobar Gas

In the present context, with the creeping of modernity in the village has made Gobar Gas plant a thing of the past.Now most of them have been buried & leveled and a few functioning are either through Govt pushing it or for aesthetic purposes.Gobar Gas plants have lost their importance and people prefer LPG over other fuels.

Mid Day Meal is served in the school by very jolly & good natured person who takes full care of children diet & taste.But recently the MDM was not being distributed as per the norms & MDM uncle looksangry & frustrated.Students witnessed MDM vendor entering into an argument with the Head Teacher demanding rise in the amount per head citing rising prices of LPG cylinder

Students felt sympathy for the MDM uncle & wants to help him in some way. They place their intentions before their teachers, & came to know how MDM vendor can be helped.1.Can grow vegetables in the school for cooking by MDM vendor.2.Can take turn to help him in cooking, thereby reducing labour costs.3.Can provide him with some alternative to cooking gas.The third suggestion draws maximum interest from the students as they want to know about the alternative to cooking gas.They were told about solar cookers & Gobar gas plants, which can be used for cooking food. After knowing the merits & demerits of solar & Gobar energy.students decided to install a Gobar Gas plant for MDM vendor.Gobar Gas excites students as they felt it within reach & familiar. They know it from their elders that Gobar Gas plant once existed in the village & were eager to recreate the magic of old days

A Gobar gas plant will be set up for the cooking of Mid Day Meal in the school.It will solve to an extent the problems of MDM vendor & help us in getting good &fully cooked food.The community will become more aware about the green & cheap fuels & will adopt them as alternative to LPG.

A Gobar gas plant for SchoolEfforts will be made to collect necessary finances for the setting up of Gobar Gas plant in School.This plant to be set up at the backyard of school will help MDM vendor to cook mid day meal.The cost to be incurred,design,rssources,optimum utilization & sustainability plan for the plant has to be chalked out.This campaign will require time, energy & enough persuasion/tact for its completion.

Awareness in the community

Happy & cheerful MDM uncle

Happy & cooperative village

Strategies

1.Team formation & division of task.2.Preparing slogans, charts & posters.3.Doing survey on the use of LPG in the village.4.Preparing seven day schedule of the campaign.5.Exposure visit to a Gobar Gas plant in nearby school.

1.Students were divided into 5 groups with seven students in each group.2.Each group was assigned a leader & mentor teacher.3.The groups were assigned specific tasks.4.Slogans,charts & posters regarding Gobar Gas, Price Rise & environment were prepared for the campaign.5.A survey on the use of different fuels like wood,LPG,kerosene & electricity for cooking was done.6.The survey was done to analyze that what space Gobar Gas can occupy in the fuel list of the village.7.The entire plan of the campaign like meetings,rallies,street plays etc and the venues were decided.8.Class Vth students were taken to visit in the nearby village to expose them to functioning of a Gobar gas plant.

1.To know what is Gobar Gas Plant ?2.How the plant functions?3.What will be the cost involved?4.How it will be sustained?5.What are its merits & demerits?

Knowledge

Students were having many questions regarding Gobar Gas. Teachers tried tomake them understand the construction & operation process through diagrams.Students got an outline of the plant. The session conducted by the teachers equip students with the general understanding of the functioning of Gobar Gas plant.

A meeting was held with the village mason & an elder person to know the cost of setting up of Gobar Gas plant. It comes out that we will require bricks & mortar, Pipes, Iron Tank,labour & plumbing cost. Summing up all these, we got a tentative amount of Rs 13,000/-.

A resource person retired from Govt agency TRYSEM was invited to brief students About the How, what & why of the Gobar Gas plant. He was also shown the site of Plant for his valuable suggestions. Most of the questions were cleared by him.

Going Out

1.An intensive awareness campaign in the village to sensitize & mobilize the community.2.Rally & Street Play will be organized to collect donations for project.3.Meeting with the Sarpanch & others for funds & support.4.Use of ICE to make Gobar Gas popular

We put our best foot forward to take community into confidence so that we must getthe required support & material from them.Through rallies in the village & Street plays the importance of Gobar Gas was emphasized.People were asked to donate money & material to make our idea possible.Extensive wall writing was done in the village & pamphlets were distributed.A money collection box was kept with School Guardian for donations.We met the Sarpanch for support & explained to him the belief behind the idea.

Pouring in

Our campaign started bearing fruits as support from different sourcesstarted pouring in.Man, money & material comes from both, the high & low among the villagers.The design & the construction process was procured from the Govt.

Model of Gobar Gas Plant.Students with the help of Mr. Ramesh JiPrepared a big model of the plant for Exhibition & explanation to the community.

Donations in cashThe money box kept with the SchoolGuardian yielded a total of Rs 3675/-.The important contributions were made by the Sarpnach,donor & member of Zila Panchayat etc.

Donations in KindMany people contributed with the Material like bricks, mortar & cement.Mr. Shannu Singh donated the pipe to connect the pit with with the tank.

Committing labourSarpanch provided us with the labour from MNREGA for digging the pit.Mr. Shakil Khan, father of Aaliya- Istand a mason by profession offered his free services for the construction of the plant.

Inauguration

1.The support from the community motivated us to increase the tempo of our campaign.2.We decided to start the construction as it will help us in enlisting the support of those who were still not sure of its success.3.Sarpanch of the village Mr. Rajju Shah inaugurated the plant.

1.The day will always be remembered, as from initial despair, it brings hope.2.We got unexpected support from the community both physical & moral.3.Everyone was chipping in with support and praises us for our efforts.4.Getting the right material at our disposal, we decided to start the construction of the Gobar Gas plant.5.We decided to make it a big affair by inviting the Sarpanch & the community members to the school.6.The construction was inaugurated by the Sarpanch in the presence of men & women from the village.7.Mr Shakil Khan, the Mason start laying pasting bricks with cement lining them upon each other to give a definite shape to our dream.

Coming together for a dream

Plays

Glimpses

The hallmark of our campaign was the intensive mobilization of theCommunity. We went from door to door for support & commitment fromThe general public.Video shoot of the entire campaign was done by the DFC team

Rally Raw Material

Students believes that they have got success merely because they were working with the intention to help someone.Meticulous planning, understanding & past goodwill has contributed to the success.Intensive campaigning & transparency of our campaign got us the desired results.The change happen because of the grit & determination of the team.The exhibition of the Gobar Gas plant model & explanation of its functioning helped us in developing community interest in the project.Sarpanch of the village needs special mention as he was instrumental in getting people donate for the cause.The level of awareness about the usability of the Gobar Gas has increased & the community also wanted it for their village.Our primary goal of helping the MDM Vendor has been achieved as he was very happy for our efforts in helping him and more by the thought these students care for him.

After the construction of the Gobar Gas plant, a mechanism to keep it running smoothly without any hurdle & also to maintain the regular supply of Gobar to the plant was made.

Sustainability-The Co-operative approach.

Mahila MandalA group of 12 women was formed.These women have their children studying in the school. The Mahila Mandal was formed To maintain the regular supply of Gobar to thePlant. All the women will supply Gobar as per their on the decided days.The criteria to select these women was that they have more than three animals with them.They pledged to supply Gobar.

Maintenance & UpkeepThe MDM vendor will take careOf the maintenance of the plant &It is his duty to keep it working fit.

Student CommitteeAs a safeguard against future problems aCommittee of students was formed with a teacher incharge to look after the affairs of the plants Support

School leader: Neetu SinghMentor Teacher: Saurabh PratapStudents:Prinsi,Sulekha,Vineet,Anshuman,Akshay,Dhananjay I,Avadesh,Atik,Purushottam I,Ichcha Ram,Nand,Ram ,Sarita,Vineeta,Preeti,Pinky,Aman ShivVeer,Jeetendra,Sanjay,Avneesh,SurjeetPurushottam II,Noor e Saleem,Roshan,Rajni KantRinku,Babloo