The function was held to award the winners of a logo design competition of the Rashtrapati Bhavan's green initiative 'Roshni' on World Environment Day.
President Patil adjudged the drawing of Robin Singh, a student of Kendrya Vidyalaya BSF school in North Kashmir's Bandipore district, a winner among 3,276 entries.
Robin Singh, who originally hails from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, was awarded the first prize comprising a certificate and Rs 10,000 in cash.
Nine-year-old Vibhu Prakash, a class 4 student of Air Force School, Panchavati, Delhi Cantonment, received the Special Encouragement Prize comprising a certificate and Rs 5000 in cash.
`Roshni' is a green innovation concept encompassing environment management and empowerment of local communities to create eco-friendly sustainable urban habitats through participation of stakeholders and convergence of partnership programmes.
It was initiated by the President on July 25, 2008 and the programme aims to make the President's Estate a green, energy efficient and zero waste model township for all other habitats across India.
"I am very happy today to receive this award and especially from the Hon'ble President. I had a belief in me and by the grace of god and my teachers, my logo was selected", Robin Singh told PTI after receiving the prize.
Asked about the inspiration behind his drawing, depicting a house and a tree, Singh said: "I have always cared about the environment and we all need to protect the environment. If everyone plants a tree around their house, then it would help a lot. That is the idea behind my design". More
