Notebooks made from unused pages distributed to school students

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Regional Commissioner of Mysuru Nitesh Patil after distributing notebooks made from unused pages to school children at a function, in Mysuru on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Notebooks made from unused blank pages were distributed to students of various schools in Mysuru on Wednesday under a joint initiative by the Department of Public Libraries and Balya Foundation.

During a programme held at the City Central Library in People’s Park, Regional Commissioner of Mysuru Nitesh Patil, who is also the Chairman of City Library Authority, handed over the notebooks to the students.

A statement here said the notebooks crafted from unused pages of partially used notebooks can become a valuable resource for the education of children from underprivileged backgrounds.

A campaign had been launched a few days ago to collect such unused pages, bind them into new notebooks and distribute them to underprivileged children.

As part of the campaign, the recycled notebooks were distributed to students from CSI Victoria School, Gadichowk Higher Primary School and Mahajana High School on Wednesday. The students too had contributed to the campaign by donating unused pages from their own notebooks.

The statement also urged members of the public, who wished to support the initiative, to donate unused notebook pages to public libraries in the city. Organisations such as the Balya Foundation and several other voluntary groups will collect these pages and arrange for them to be properly bound into notebooks, the statement said.

The primary objective of the campaign is to provide these notebooks to those in need while reducing the number of trees cut down for paper production.

Mr. Patil, who distributed the recycled notebooks to the students, pointed out that the use of blank pages from partially used notebooks would help reduce tree felling. He described the initiative as an environmentally-friendly campaign and appealed to children to contribute unused pages so that they could support