and eternal but the power to initiate
change to guide change to control change
that is what eludes all of us all the
first want to make a contribution to
society
all of us have ideas of Spartan changes
that would lead to remarkable results
but the lack of means to make the end is
what can finds these two being just
ideas under select you who do venture
down that road inevitably find
themselves at the dead end where the
only question on their minds is what now
I believe there are two key instruments
vital to effecting change a major
impediment to change is the general
tendency to portray it as a quest for
chivalrous lights and white honors the
anticipation of what would ensue
inhibits us from acting in the present
this is called in psychology analysis
paralysis hence the first step of
effecting change is to overcome this
tongue-twister of a syndrome because you
see change never happens at the summit
levels it is always changed at the base
that brings about a transformation at
the peak what we fail to fathom is that
change isn’t an odyssey change is an
active undertaking it is the integrating
of an idea into your psyche it is the in
graining of actions in your lifestyle
it is the instilling of a belief into
your personality
you don’t become a hermit and then start
reaching change you feel change my
proactive measures the second instrument
is actually a blend of two factors by
water to bring about change
targeted multiplication and the
multiplier effect once you have
internalized the change the next step is
to project it on to others
targeted multiplication focuses on
selecting a specific section of the
society and browsing them of ackers you
as a facilitator make an appeal tailor
to your target not appeal may be
rational or emotive prudent or
philosophical and then you provide them
with the defined prescription of what
you ask of them you can spend an entire
month working on just your immediate
family but ultimately if you’re
successful in showing in them that seed
of passion towards a cause you have
achieved a milestone the second
instrument is the multiplier effect it
is a phenomenon that has transcended
boundaries of disciplines and it arose
from a learning a holistic learning of
various subjects the idea behind the
multiplier effect is to catalyze change
my triggering the chain reaction it is
what they call in economics the
demonstration effect it is the principle
on which all advertisements are based it
article a it’s a very common idea not if
you create a positive market sentiment
all you need is for one person to buy
that product you stimulate the fission
as soon as a few people buy it
others will most definitely follow suit
for reasons of their own that may have
piqued the interest of some it may be
particularly utilitarian to another few
some I want to do it to maintain an
outgoing demeanor while there will also
be those who’ll do it to not seem
uncouth it is what they call in the
fashion industry make as making a style
statement all of us here are closed
according to what we believe are the
norm so appropriate clothing but if
someone amongst us say this lady right
here conceived and executed an
unconventional idea she would certainly
be conscious of herself and very very
anxious of all the stares but ultimately
not is what will set a trend a bizarre
idea will come into work only because
one person had the will to execute it we
have all seen ripples form in water at
the slightest disturbance
what explains this phenomenon is an
extrapolation of the hyejin’s principle
it states that every disturbance on the
medium has a fresh source of disturbance
and thereby each disturbance creates new
waves a single drop of water does not
undulate an isolation the momentum
imparted to one draw alludes to all its
neighbors and thus each disturbance
creates new waves magnifying a single
disturbance to ripples history is
replete with examples of how change is
multiplied let us take for instance the
revolt of 1857 the first struggle
against colonial rule Mangal Pandey
struck off just one Domino by leading
the protest against the grease
cartridges of the Enfield rifles but the
ball he set rolling was beyond his
wildest imaginations what had started as
an insurrection in the army soon took on
eclectic dimensions economic political
social religious of course the revolt
was a political and a martial failure
but its triumph was in the fact that
obliged people from different walks of
life to converge to accomplish something
in national interest the cry for change
the photo by one person was emulated
successively and it magnified manifold
an even more befitting analogy of the
multiplier effect would be with pedagogy
especially that at the school level
you see schools are not just educational
institutions schools are a platform
where children belonging to different
strata of the society congregate to be
nurtured the school has at their
disposal an assembly of young
impressionable souls if the school
embosses on their minds value is
fostering constructive change the impact
of it is enduring working with children
in their formative years has three
distinctive advantages one the attender
minds are ever so ready to absorb change
second the earlier one sets on the path
of change the stronger is the result for
change and
third and most importantly children are
ultimately the ones who will carry these
changes the furthest long long has
trains been talked of way as a school
decided it was time to be the change
deeply perturbed by the state of
decadence I environment was in we
decided to make our own experiments with
change the issues that our environment
faces are not alien to us there are a
harsh truths of a reality we have
dreamed we have deliberated we have
debated but we have never ever move
beyond symbolism our fields are dying
our waters are dirtier than ever we
stand on the verge of the exhausting our
energy resources the very air we breathe
threatens to kill us and all the while
we remain stoical when male Armstrong
took his first step on the moon it was
hailed as a small step for a man but a
giant leap for mankind
we began in our own school on a small
level we started off with dedicated
awareness campaigns for each wing
subsequently a cleanliness drive was
organized in the vicinity of the school
113 teacher students I’m sorry
113 students and 13 teachers traced the
boundaries of the school and culminated
at the sector’s market
once there they interacted with
shopkeepers and store owners to rouse
them off occurs in order to minimize the
use of plastic we we implored the school
authorities decrease mandatory use of
steel lunchboxes and steel water bottles
this undertaking was not to boost waste
consumption as many people have
questioned the logic behind it was to
deter our school students and staffers
from opting for plastic items in the
from there we commence phase two
concrete developments in the sphere of
ecological conservation are atypical by
themselves but on those few chance
occasions that that did happen students
were always kept out of the loop 35
percent of the world’s population was
kept out of the loop
we believe that alone we might make just
a small difference to mother earth but
if all the student community of
delhi-ncr joined hands the difference we
could make would actually be significant
what we had envisioned was a
collaboration of schools pledged in
solidarity towards fostering the
ecosystem we thought of making it a
paperless event altogether and thus we
went ahead with sending a invites now
the response we got to that that wasn’t
certainly too heartening but we had to
make a second trial this time we set out
in different directions to propagate the
idea in person and thus was born of an
out of the core beliefs of the power
factions over that of words with Ivan we
gave Environmental Conservation the tag
of a competition when each participating
school was asked to take up a project
that would have a ground impact and
alleviate actual environmental
conditions the tags sought to tap on the
potential the immense immense potential
of the human sense of self declaring I
want to be a competition kill two birds
with one stone not only did it
incentivize participation it ensured
sustenance of momentum finally efforts
both fruit and we had some institutions
who fell in line with our thoughts the
ball was now rolling keeping in mind the
importance ala to environmental
conservation in our culture the concept
of pants that were are the five elements
of nature was chosen as the theme for
the event participants had to take up
activities categorized on the under the
five heads of air water earth and
and the work done under the banner of
heaven has been pervasive and
praiseworthy if we look at the
beginnings made here in our own school
in the total of air and audit of trees
was conducted it is scientifically
established that the fully grown tree
can provide enough oxygen for 25 people
we were pleasantly surprised to find
that a school has a working strength of
2,000 with over 115 mature trees putting
the ratio well under 25 is 2:1
thereafter students of class 6 were
tasked with identifying plants with the
greatest oxygen output they came up with
names like the snake plant the manna
plan and the array kappa after
consultation with botany faculty these
plants were procured from nurseries and
planted in a school under the toe of
earth an activity was organized for the
students of the pre-primary wing they
were asked to donate all genes to the
school out of this discarded clothing we
decided to make bags and this gold bags
were distributed to the students in the
total of energy we decided to make a
shift towards environmental
conservatives renewable energy and a
school sign for solar panels rated at 50
kilowatts our participants have also
executed some exceptionally inspiring
activities and especially in the domains
of earth energy and the sheer novelty
and perseverance of some of these ideas
have left us awestruck in the earth 3
activities have been particularly
noteworthy one participating school
organized industrial scale manufacturer
of manual from the base generated within
the school another participant
arranged for recycling of paper they
collected all waste paper from within
their school and outside and made fresh
notebooks out of them another yet
participating school organized for
organic holy color making activities to
promote ecologically friendly products
in the tattoo of earth we had a school
with us that
expanded the scope of the term
environment and adopted a village
students and teachers from the school
made regular visits to village and
educated them about hygiene and
sanitation let us take a moment to
reflect upon the bringing of change by
ivana first it flouse people to be
dynamic eco Crusaders all participants
are vowed to actively implement measures
with tangible impacts on the environment
second it targeted a segment of the
society and inducted them into the
movement and third the hallmark of Aven
its outreach it engaged with 13 schools
each participating school 2,000 families
were associated because thus compounding
the effect of Havana and their lie your
instruments of change conquest over
analysis paralysis targeted
multiplication and the multiplier effect
in absolute the impact made was up
straight down ting success was in the
fact that it united minds towards making
this world a better place I’d like to
conclude on the note the next time you
get the temptation to resist or avoid
change aim instead to initiate the ones
that lead you to where you want to be
and remember if there were no change
there’d be no butterflies thank you [Applause]