Socially Useful Productive Work

Socially Useful Productive Work is a purposive productive work and services related to the needs of the community, which will be proved meaningful to the learner. It was introduced in 1978, by the Ministry of Education to promote Gandhian values and educational ideas of Mahatma Gandhi. In addition to developing individual skills, SUPW helps in developing among the students the habit to work as a community.

As part of B.Ed. curriculum, SUPW is regarded as an important work and all the student teachers prepared their various works. As part of SUPW, I made four different flower pots using plastic bottles of soft drinks, soda etc. The reason why I chose plastic bottles is because it takes upto atleast 1000 years for every single water bottle to decompose. 80% of the plastic water bottles end up in landfills.

There are some shocking truths behind the accumulation of plastic bottles. It is really impossible for us to stop using plastic bottles, but the only way is to reduce the use by recycling it. One of the ways to recycle it by using it as flower pots as I mentioned earlier. By planting plants on it, we are actually giving new life to a plant by using this non- biodegradable bottle.

This is an ecofriendly way since it doesnot gets accumulated anywhere. It is used to make different varieties of flower pots which are simple and economical.