Pradeep Kumawat

As an Environmentalist
Massive campaign against Polythene
Tree Plantation
Conservation of lakes
Campaign against Polythene
» Massive campaign against Polythene at regional level
» Massive campaign at national level
Achivements

Massive campaign against Polythene at regional level

Inaugration and Premier of the film
On date 21, November, 1999 this film was showed on all the cables; Mewar, Maharana, Vaishali and Soni Cable network of the city, Udaipur. This film was appreciated and seen by atleast 2 lakh peoples of the city.
As per the results many people expressed their views on the bad results of the polythenes on their telephones and writing letters. They also have taken oath to stop using the polythene.

Posters & Banner Campaign
Under the wings of this movement the most important source were posters and banners. The poster was inaugrated by the present Manav Sansadan Vikas minister-Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi. Dr. Joshi also appreciated this movement and he declared this as a powerful medium for awakening the people for the protection of environment. An Anti-Polythene Campaign was also conducted during this movement and Posters were also printed for distributing among the people. Banners were put at various places. 1200 Jute Bags were also distributed by the Rotary Club.

Slogan Competitions
Under the wings of this movement “Polythene Bags : Khatre Anake” Taking as a subject, a slogan competition was also conducted-2000 students took part in it and took oath not to use polythene bags. On this occassion, students expressed their views with full enthusiasm against polythene.

One truck of Polythen-Removed from Pichola Lake
During the movement against the polythene bags Alok Institution and Fatehpura Interact Club took out, a truck full of polythene bags containing the heap of flowers from the water ofthe lakes from the Amarkund area at Pichola by 400 students which was an appreciated work for environmental pollution. This cleaniness movement was started by our chief guest Sh. Virendra Bapna the manager and movement organiser of this programme Dr. Pradeep Kumawat who took the polythene bags out of the lakes. At one side the students took out the garlands and the bags containing dirty things from the bank of the lakes where as on the other side some of the students took out 2 dead animals from the water. They put the polythenes in to the Nagar Parishad trucks with the help of baskets and containers under this movement. People living near by areas also extended their support and helped in this movement.

Staging of Nukkad Natak ‘Polythen Ka Anawaran’
Under anti-polythene campaign in organisation of Mass-awareness programme for environmental protection Nukkad Natak “Polythene Ka Anawaran” was presented at Jagdish Chowk, Gangaur Ghat and Hathipole Chouraha (Udaipur) areas of city. Through various characters students communicated the harmful effects of polythene on environment in this show of Diretor Pradeep Kumawat. It was shown through the Natak that how polythene as a slow-poison adversely affects the life of a common man & the environment.
This play depicted how human beings, animals and plants can be affected by the hazards of polythene through clear & simple dialogues.

Campaign symbol was Introduced-Anti Polythene Campaign
Founder-Chairman of Alok Institute, Sh. Shyam Lal Kumawat released the campaign symbol under anti-polythene campaign, Campaign director Dr. Pradeep Kumawat reported that these.

Postcard Campaign, included in anti-polythene campaign
Postcard campaign was started by writing 251 postcards under the second stage of anti-polythene campaign, Campaign Director Dr. Pradeep Kumawat said that senior students of Alok School, Hiran Magri wrote postcards to P.M. Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee and C.M. Sh. Ashok Gehlot requesting them to put ban on polythene as it is the only way to solve this problems. These students also nentioned in their postcards that flying rainbow polythene are poluting our country’s land & water environment.

Ayad (Rainy River) remove polythene campaign
Dr. Pradeep Kumawat, who has been organising Anti-polythene campaign since last 5 years. In the first step Interact Club members of Alok Senior Secondary School, Hiran Magri, Alok Sr. Sec. School Fatehpura Interact Club & Rotract Club ‘Pratap’ and Bharat Vikas Parishad ‘Vivekanand’ member rendered 2 hours social service to start with the campaign.

Dr. Pradeep Kumawat demanded to make strict law like in Himachal Pradesh for using polythene. One such letter was forwarded to District Collector & Mayor of the city. Dr. Kumawat got 5000 poster published & distributed to various school & tried to send this message to every nook & corner of this city.

Massive campaign against Polythene at national level
In todays competition for urbanisation man has his responsibility towards the environment. But, as per the responsibility, Dr. Pradeep Kumawat has organised many Nukkad Natakas of, when the cows & other domestic animals have eaten polythene how they would be effect. He has tried to bring awareness under the wings of this campaign Dr. Kumawat has directed the features film ‘Hum Tumse Darte Hain’ for stopping the use of polythene. For this he was awarded by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan i.e. Sh. Ashok Gehlot in the year 2000.
This is Dr. Kumawats personal efforts due to which opposition of polythene campaign was stared at the International level. As a result the credit for the banning of polythene in Udaipur as well as Rajasthan goes to only one Dr. Kumawat.
For bringing mass awareness against polythene you did poster campaign, postcard campaign, theme shows, Nukkad Natakas, human awareness ralley, paper bags, banner campaigns etc. Running of all these campaign has helped a lot in reducing environment pollution.
Awards awarded in the field of environment. Rotary Environment Award in year 2003-04 from the Rotary Club Udaipur.

At present
Citizen society for environmental & awareness - He is Chariman.
He is national organiser of ‘Polythene Hatao Campaign’.

Campaign on Polythene
Campaign of clearing the polythens lying on the roads.
Poster campaign
Organisation of Railies
Spreading mass awareness by the Nukkad Natakas.

Research on harmful effect of Polythene
Dr. Pradeep Kumawat has done research on the harmful effects of Polythene through the information from newspaper, books and internet. He has collected all the datas and information and presented them in easy way, even he has prepared 10,000 booklets of 25 pages and distributed them in society.

Film on Polythene pollution
After the hand work of 15 days, Dr. Pradeep Kumanwat has found the places where polythenes were thrown on streets. These polythenes were adversely effecting the beauty of environment as well as Udaipur film was shot at these places. 2 video cameras were used in shooting this film of 40 min. After putting in so much hard efforts, this film was completed awaken the masses. Its next part ‘Hum Tumse Darate hain’ has made the history.