Sharad Vivek Sagar

Patna, July 13: A Patna boy has taken up the mantle to ensure better environment to the people around him and abroad through his knowledge of nature.

Sharad Vivek Sagar, a Class XII passout of St Dominic Savio’s High School, has been selected for 350.org Second Climate Leadership Workshop to be held in New Delhi.

The three-day workshop that would start on July 29 is being organised by the world’s largest climate movement, 350.org, and Clean India Network in association with Indian Youth Climate Network.

Sagar is the founder-president of a student organisation We Aim High.

“Rajendra Singh, the Magsaysay Award winner who is popularly known as the Water Man of India, will also attend the event. It would be a pleasure to meet Singh and others, whom we have always seen as role models,” Sagar said.

He added: “It would be great to attend the event because I would have the opportunity to meet a number of young leaders from across the world and exchange ideas. It would also be interesting to note how the young leaders would be keen on knowing the success story of my organisation. Every student/leader would have to share the success stories of one’s own organisation.”

Sagar has been selected by Hofstra University, New York, and Drexel University, Philadelphia, for undergraduate scholarships.

Sagar’s name also figures in the waiting list of top colleges of the world like Brown University and Duke.

However, Sagar is preparing for a major at Ivy League College in the US in international diplomacy.

Sagar has won the title of the Sharpest Whizkid Asia, 2008, in Horlicks Whizkids Asian, final.

He also featured among the top five talents in the world in Scholars, a US-based journal in 2008, represented India in JENESYS, 2008, in Japan. JENESYS is a student-exchange programme run by the Union human resource development department.

Sagar also represented the country in United Nations International Youth Conference, 2009, held in South Korea and the South Asian Youth Summit in Colombo held in the same year.

Sagar feels that it is the primary duty of the schools to impart knowledge and encourage love for environment among children. He said: “The concept of green schools must also be established in India so that a better and sustainable future can be ensured to all.”

Sagar would be seen discussing the projects related to his students’ organisation at the event.

Among these would be Dexterity, an inter-school fest that is being conducted for the past four years.

The event has been organised four times in Patna and it was in 2010 that Dexterity was organised in Dhanbad.

IITians across the country took part in it. Students of National Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology also attended the event.

Dexterity also has an online portal (on Facebook), where tips on environment are given every day.

From the online site, people can know how to limit the carbon footprint.