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Yugratna Srivastava, a class IX student of YPS, is a special invitee of UN secretary general Ban Ki- Moon. When she addresses the General Assembly session on environment conservation, in the audience will be over 100 heads of state, including US President Barack Obama. For Yugratna, the audience this time may be special, but she will do what she has been doing as a green activist -- spreading awareness about climate change and sustainable development.
She is an active member of Tarumitra, an NGO active among school children. The NGO has over 16,000 schools across India as its members. She was selected to address the UN session last year in Norway, where she had gone to attend the International Children Conference on environment. "Over 1,200 children from all over the world had come to attend the conference,'' recalls Fr Robert Athickal SJ of Tarumitra. "So electrifying was her speech there that she was instantly picked up to represent the children of the world at the Summit on Climate Change.
"She is amazing and you just have to listen to her to feel the kind of impact she makes through her speeches,'' says Fr Athickal while talking to TOI from Patna, where the Tarumitra is based. Yugranta has gone to New York with her mother Roshani. She belongs to Muzaffarngaar in western UP and has joined St Fidelis College of the city recently.
