jaipur the 18th national jamboree of bharat scouts and guides in pali has turned into a classroomcumworkshop imparting training on plastic bricks by reusing waste plastics and sharing water conservation practices or green energy to 35000 participants attending the eventthe participants from across the country are getting lessons and handson activities to fight climate change and to achieve 17 sustainable development goals which is based on the events theme progress with peacethe teams in rohat village which have turned into a tent city with 3500 tents are collecting plastic waste and depositing it in the workshop area to make plastic bricks the idea is to teach the scouts and guides on to reduce the use of plastics and how to dispose of thempresident droupadi murmu has rightly remarked that if we will not act now it will be too late to mitigate the impact of climate change here the participants are learning the art of how to reuse plastic which is among the single worst polluter and to imbibe the reuse of products to reduce the stress on scarce resources said darshana pawaskar joint director of bharat scouts and guides delhi she is in charge of activities related to climate changemanu singh a participant from pali told toi that they have shared how during the summer season they rationalise the use of water in all wells in tune with its refuelling timeduring the summers the refill in the surface of wells takes five to seven days while in winters it takes one to two days so accordingly the lifting of water is allowed for the villagers said singh to a gathering of participants during a discussionevery participant is taking a pledge to follow a sustainable life model and work towards minimising the impact of climate change the site has listed all 17 goals listed in sdgs to create awareness on the subject and those with interest are being given detailed information with ideas on how to disseminate it in their local regionpromoting the idea of gender balance is also high on the agenda of organizers this is for the first time 40 of participants are women in the jamboree with 14000 against the total of 35000govind meena co of scouts rajasthan said in all the activities from sports adventure and cultural we have ensured that participation of girls should be almost 50 the idea is to provide women equal opportunities here so that they can serve the nation when required