NEED OF THE HOUR: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

By Neeta Chhabra, @neeta_chhabra

​Sustainable development is ​development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs: the goal of which is to achieve balance/harmony between environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, and socio-political sustainability.
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Millennium Development Goals
In September 2000, leaders of 189 countries gathered at the United Nations headquarters and signed the historic Millennium Declaration, in which they committed to achieving a set of 8 measurable goals that ranged from addressing extreme poverty and hunger to promoting gender equality and reducing child mortality by the target date of 2015.

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The MDGs were set to expire in 2015 and the discussion of a post-2015 agenda continued. ​In July 2014, the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) proposed ​a document containing 17 goals to b​e put forward for the General Assembly’s approval in September 2015. This document set the ground for the new 17 SDGs and the global development agenda spanning from 2015-2030.


DLDAV MODEL SCHOOL PITAMPURA INDIA WORKING TOWARDS ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
In my capacity as Global Projects Coordinator, I have been working on projects on Sustainable Development Goals in my school. Here are several projects on which we have worked:

My students from 10th Grade from DLDAV Model School Pitampura have created a website highlighting the significance of SDGs: WEBSITE

I participated in a global project by Microsoft India on the theme and submitted my lesson on SDGs: MY SWAY LESSON

My 10th grade students participated in the EVERYDAY KINDNESS PROJECT
VIDEO
LINK and LINK

​PHOTOGRAPHS: EVERYDAY KINDNESS PROJECT

​PHOTOGRAPHS: PROJECT ZERO HUNGER
We at DLDAV Model School Pitampura have collaborated with ROTI project under ROTARY AKKASH. All the stakeholders (students, teachers, and support staff) care for the needy and the deprived. Freshly cooked chapatis with vegetable are being contributed by the school twice a week.

DLDAV Model School Pitampura is making every earnest effort through all the stakeholders to sensitize the community and work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Neeta Chhabra
DLDAV Model School Pitampura INDIA 
I have been in this noble profession of teaching for the last 29 years. I teach Social Sciences to Grade 10 in DLDAV Model School Pitampura. I carry a long and rich experience of teaching with the use of technology and possess an up to date and working knowledge of effective ICT practices in a secondary school. Connect on Twitter at @neeta_chhabra.

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