Volunteers of the day – Tanvi Gupta, Ruchika Shukla, Monika Tomar, Prayag Tripathi and Sagnick Das started the day with the roll call followed by the brief on the day’s activities and the competition.

The first session of the day was ‘Best Out of Waste’ Competition in which the children had to prepare something using waste materials. Most of them used old newspapers and made out of them beautiful show-pieces like hut, ship, steamer, revolver, chandelier, bouquet etc. Eleven pieces were selected as the best and the artists were given attractive prizes like tiffin boxes, sippers etc.

The second session of the day was the CSR Award Ceremony during which the active CSR volunteers were felicitated for their two years of hard-work and dedication. Mr. Sher Singh Chouhan of MBA got the Best CSR Volunteer-2016 Award along with a trophy and certificate of appreciation. Ms. Akansha Saxen of MBA got the Outstanding CSR Volunteer Award with a trophy and certificate. Similarly, Mr. Ankur Agarwal of PGDM got the Most Reliable CSR Volunteer Award, Ms. Kanika Goel of MCA got the Most Dedicated CSR Volunteer Award and Mr. Pushpank Kaushik of MCA bagged the Star CSR Award, trophies and the certificates. Efforts and contributions of seven more volunteers were recognized and appreciated by presenting them the certificates. They were Naman Bhatnagar (MBA), Ayush Agarwal (MBA), Sumit Arora (MBA), Ujjwal Kumar (MBA), Abhay Jain (MBA), Mohit Jain (MBA) and Ujjwal Raj (MCA).

Attractive prizes and packets of cream biscuits were given to all the children. Dr. Gopal Krishna Dwivedi guided and accompanied the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of Utthan Lab.