Dear Melli, I am happy to report to you about the awareness campaign we held at Chamarajanagar regarding plastic use. a protest marsh was organised by Vivekananda foundation under it's VIVEKA ASHA PROJECT. Nearly about more than on thousand children went on a protest march and with awareness building slogans in all the busy market roads of Chamarajanagr. It was quite an event. It was inaugurated by the MLA of the area and forest officers and also the DDPI of education dept. The public were verymuch surprised at the large procession. The shop owners were woried about how to discontinue the use of plastic carry bags. We sbmited a memorandum to the District collector asking him to ban the use of plastic bags. Wesuggested the public that they shoul carry a cloth bag to market and bring back their material in their own bags. The event was very well covered in all the news papers. I will make adetailed report and will send you,. But now there are photographs attached. I will be sending the brake ups for the budget items shortly With kindest regards G.S.Jayadev