Lucknow, 4 July : Students of all the 21 campuses of City Montessori School celebrated the Van Mahotsav (July 1 to 7) with joy and gaiety by involving themselves in various creative activities relating to the environment and its conservation and sending the message of keeping the earth, fresh, green and thriving with plant and animal life. While on one hand, CMS Asharfabad and other CMS Campuses showed their commitment to protection of forests and greenery by planting trees, on the other hand they created awareness about making the Earth Clean and Green through poster-making, slogan writing, collage making, poetry writing and other creative mediums. Students celebrated International Plastic Bag Free Day with great enthusiasm and made a strong appeal to the public to use paper bags instead of plastic bags. They made society members aware of the dangers of plastic pollution and stressed on the importance of the adage, “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.”