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FRIDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2019 News that matters

Delhi students gather at LodhiGarden for Global Climate StrikeThe Global climate strike tookplace across the world on Fri-day, 20th September 2019,following which 2000 peoplegathered around the LodhiGarden Gate No 1 area inNew Delhi.

It occurred in response to themovement that erupted after aSwedish teen, Greta Thun-berg urged the people to par-ticipate in a global strike. Flagmarches and strikes were or-ganised in several parts of theworld including the US,France, Australia, Germany,Japan along with several In-dian cities with massivehuman turnout pressing onthe need of immediate actionson the global emergency, weare in.

People of all age groupscame in huge numbers andraised slogan like "There is noEarth B" and "Pradushan seiAzadi". The strike marchstarted from the Lodhi Gardenarea and came to an end nearthe Ministry of Environment,Forest and Climate Change,where protestors expressed the wish to meet the con-cerned ministers, but they hadto return without a responsedue to unavailability of any of-ficial in the Ministry.

The spot was flooded with students holding placards

emboldening their stand of nocompromise on the climate is-sues. These students were from various colleges in andaround Delhi such as DRC,CVS, Pearl Academy, BharatiCollege, ADGITM, Jamia MiliaIslamia and others.

Several school and collegestudents demonstrated enthu-siasm and recited poems.One such student, Rupanshifrom Pearl Academy, Noidasaid, " Today was my examand just after the submission,I rushed for this strike. I am re-searching and working on col-ors and i want to find waysthrough which i can collecteco-friendly ways of preparing color prints".

The Delhi police was de-ployed to facilitate smoothcompletion of the strike andavoid any ruckus. ConstableVikram Singh, who was sta-tioned at the place of thestrike said, " It is really a goodinitiative of students and thiskind of movement should beorganised by individuals al-ways.”

These kind of strikes andprotest are gaining momen-tum world over, and in contin-uation of the 'Friday for future' campaign, the second strikeis scheduled on 27th Septem-ber across the world. In Delhi, it will take place atJantar Mantar.

Pallak and Laxmi

“Ramjas college incident motivated me to join politics”- DUSU PresidentKiran and LaxmiAkhil Bharatiya VidyarthiParishad (ABPV), studentwing of the ruling BJP, wonthe DUSU elections 2019.The student body won threeposts out of four - President,Vice President and Joint Secretary - with huge margins.

IIn a conversation with BharatiGazette, the newly electedDUSU president AkshitDhaiya said, "In my startingdays of college, I was mostlyinvolved in sports and aca-demics. But in February 2017,an incident in Ramjas Collegetook place where anti-nationalslogan were raised.The standof ABVP in this entire matterimpacted me and I decided tojoin University politics andABVP circuit.”

Mentioning about his Presi-dential agenda and noveltiesin it, he said, "Our model is 5PModel, 'Parishad, Pravesh,Prathyakram, Pariksha aurParinam , hum karengekaam'. We want to implementthis at the ground level of thecampuses. Apart from groundlevel development, my focuswill be on sports. Our Univer-sity students never win anymedals in olympics. They donot even qualify for any con-test. My vision is to preparestudents for "Olympic 2024".Being a sportsperson, per-sonally I want to take somenew aspects for sports in Uni-

versity ."On asking,how will he involvethose people who do not be-lieve in ABVP,he said,"Wewant to build a responsible and student friendly DUSU.

We are planning to organiseolympiads, sports tourna-ments , training camps etc.We have been organisingconclaves like "Sahas" for ourwomen scholars and for cul-tural societies such as dance.Through all these, masseswill automatically involve andDUSU will become friendly forall. "

Opening about his inspiration, he added ,"This win is thetribute to Arun Jately Ji. I amhis admirer and following himfor the past seven years andlike any other ABVP activist,my inspiration is also "SwamiVivekananda". ABVP targetsthe nation first, nation recon-struction and India as Super-power in world, theory. Thuswe all follow him. I am a be-liever of his line "arise awakeand stop not till the goal isreached".

The election results were an-nounced on September 13and National Students Unionof India (NSUI) won the postof Secretary

Akshit Dahiya (center) celebrating with other ABVP members after wining the election. Source: Facebook

Bharati gets its own Dangal girls: Story of failures and success

Students protesting at Lodhi Garden. Source: Laxmi

Students face problems during examination form submission

Last week, long queues wereobserved outside administra-tion department as studentswaited to submit their exami-nation forms for semester ex-aminations, Nov./Dec, 2019.

Each department was allottedtwo submission dates and itwas supposed to be done be-tween 10 a.m. and 1p.m.

However, students facedmany problems due to over-crowd and delay in theprocess.

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Bindhia and Kanchan,werethe part of Kho-Kho team,which won India vs Nepal testseries, held in Bardia,Nepal.They were selected throughFederation Camp, and had noidea that this selection will be-come a great achievement forthem.

Bindhia, who hails fromKanyakumari in Tamil Nadu,began her career as a sprinterbut later changed her sport toKho-Kho. This was becauseher father(CISF personnel)got transferred from Kar-nataka to Delhi.

Dearth of space for practice inDelhi unlike Karnataka forced

Bindia to change her sport.The duo never imagined thatthis reluctant move, wouldprove to be a turning point inher life.

Her talent was recognized byAmit Kumar, Kho-Kho coachat Bharati College. After hevisited as a trainer of a Sum-mer Camp, to her school,where he recgonized her po-tential and advised to take ad-mission in Bharati College.

“Not everything went well forme in the beginning at the col-lege. In my first inter-collegecompetition, I got out in very short time, this was the mo-ment I began doubting my po-tential,” she told the reporter.

“There was not a single daywhen I skipped the practiceand in fact I increased my ef-forts to prove myself,” sheadded.

Another setback jolted herconfidence as she was toparticipate in a tournament,which got cancelled due tosome political reasons. “Wewere going to represent DelhiUniversity in the tournament.It was a big opportunity and to

practice for same, we had tocompromise with study forthe semester examination,”she said.

With the support of her family,especially her father, Bindhiapersistently focused on thehardwork and won severalmatches at college as well asnational level. It was one ofthose tournaments that ledher selection to the Interna-tional level tournament inNepal.

The tournament was organ-ised from 15 to 16 September.The Indian team, of whichboth Bindhia and Kanchanwere a part won all the threematches and bagged the tro-phy for the nation.

All this has happened be-cause of the dedication andefforts of Amit sir and Shubhrama’am. We would like to say that ifyou work hard and believe inyourself, you can achieve anygoal that you want,” both theplayers said.Bindhia and Kanchan’s storytells us, that we never knowwhat destiny has in store forrus but if one is persistent with-efforts,one can set an exam-ple for everyone.

To read Kanchan’s story, keep fol-lowing the Bharati Gazette.

Bindhia(right)and Kanchan(left)Picture credit: Priyanka