HOW TO WRITE A PROFICIENCY BADGE NOTEBOOK?

1. THE PB SHOULD BE COVERED(WHITE/BROWN)

2. THE EMBLEM OF THE PB SHOULD BE DRAWN/PASTED ON THE COVER

3. THERE SHOULD BE A BIO-DATA PAGE

4. FIRST COH GIVING YOU THE PERMISSION TO START WORKING ON THE PB

5. SYLLAUBS OF THE PB (AS PER APRO PART 2)

6. FOLLOW-UP (NOTES)

7. SECOND COH CERTIFYING THAT YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE WORK

8. PB CERTIFICATE SIGNED BY THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER IN THE PRESCRIBED FORMAT

( LET THE PICTURES GET PASTED ON THE LEFT SIDE PAGES OF THE PB NOTEBOOK)
 Ecologist

Name of Scout/Guide:
 Court of Honour
BIODATA Permission to Earn Badge
Date: ……………………….

Name: Scout / Guide ……………………………… has

Troop:
District: been given permission to work on
Patrol:
BADGE REQUIREMENTS completing the requirements (as per

Date of Commencement: APRO Part II) towards earning the

…………………………………badge.
Date of Completion:

Scout Master
 Syllabus
(As per APRO Part II)
1.Know about the other agencies working for
ecological balance
2.Enlist cooperation of a specialist in the vicinity to
educate people about this by way of discussions
,audio visuals etc.
3.Propagate against cutting trees
4. Organise Van Mahotsav in monsoons
5.Educate people about pollution problems in the
area
6.Work for solving any three of the following
problems
Soil Erosion
Tree Cutting
Killing Animals
Wastage of water or water pollution
Air pollution
Littering
 Agencies working for
Ecological Balance in India
1. Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural
Technology (ANERT)
2. Babul Films Society (BFS)
3. Satpuda foundation
4. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
5. Conserve Environmentalist Foundation of India
6. Delhi Greens (NGO)
7. The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI)
8. Poovulagin Nanbargal
9. Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation
10. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the
Environment (ATREE)
11. Save Aravali Trust
 Outdoor Cooking
This year it was not the normal Vanmahotsav, or ritual
planting of trees in Maharashtra during the monsoon
season. Our Guides troop planned to plant trees in our

Vrindvavan School
new school campus Vrindavan.

We planted several Kadu Badami trees, cherry trees , a

jackfruit tree, a few mango trees, a bamboo and event

Campus
kenda sampige flower tree.

We take turns to ensure they are watered, We have

even provided tree guards made from bamboo sticks
and adorned with dried thorn branches to protect the
plants from cows and pigs.
 Key Pollution Problems in Kumarapatnam,
Harihar and Surrounding Villages
Three main pollution problems that plague our area are

1.Algal Blooms in River Tungabhadra: An algal bloom is a rapid

increase or accumulation in the population of algae in
freshwater or marine water systems, and is recognized by the
discoloration in the water from their pigment. A harmful algal
bloom (HAB) is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to
other organisms via production of natural toxins,

2.Thermal Pollution from Birla Pulp Factory: Thermal pollution

is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes
ambient water temperature. A common cause of thermal
pollution is the use of water as a coolant by power plants and
industrial manufacturers. This can cause dealth of fish in large
numbers and death of aquatic plants.

3.Untreated Sewage from Harihar town and villages: Sewage

refers to liquid wastes containing a mixture of human feces and
wastewater from non-industrial human activities such as
bathing, washing, and cleaning. In many areas of the world,
sewage is dumped into local waterways, in the absence of
practical alternatives. Untreated sewage poses a major risk to
human health since it contains waterborne pathogens that can
cause serious human illness. Untreated sewage also destroys
aquatic ecosystems, threatening human livelihoods, when the
associated biological oxygen demand and nutrient loading
deplete oxygen in the water to levels too low to sustain life.