1. I CAN “A DESIGN FOR CHANGE”
An organized canteen break
21st September, 10:00 A.M
“Our „Break” is on. We are in the canteen. As usual, the canteen is in
total chaos. Everyone is out to push their way in.
As the canteen boys try to please everybody, they find themselves
completely lost. Their orders get mixed up, they serve the wrong items
for the wrong pennies and it generates a confused and irritated lot. In
all the confusion and chaos, food is spilled, wrappers and food packs
are left here and there, thus leaving the canteen quite dirty.
In these circumstances, I somehow manage to make my way through
the crowd and reach the canteen counter but alas! By that time the
“BREAK” is over. TRIINNGG………………………… went the bell and I like
many others had to make our way back to the classes, with an empty
stomach and an irritated mind.
FEEL: We observed that the canteen cannot accumulate too many
students at a time. The entire process of having food in the canteen is
too time consuming and leaves the place quite dirty and in a mess. The
canteen staff also appears to have a lot of difficulties in managing the
entire system. Inspite of our school having the system of class wise
fixed canteen days there is still a lot of chaos.

2. IMAGINE: We imagined that if there are a minimum number of
students in the canteen on any particular day it will make the task of
the canteen staff more manageable and help them ensure food
availability to each and every student visiting the canteen. The canteen
will not be a Piccadilly circus but an orderly place all the time, when we
go to the canteen.
DO: We discussed with our principal and asked her to issue a notice to
all students giving their class wise schedule for canteen visits to
ensure that, students who don‟t have canteen period on that day are
not present in the canteen.
We also discussed with the canteen in-charge so that he can give us
one canteen staff that would be placed at the entrance to check the
identity cards of the students.
Two separate dustbins, one biodegradable and the other non-
biodegradable were placed. The biodegradable waste would be used as
manure in the school gardens. Separate menu wise (food items)
counters were made and the traffic of the students regulated into
queues.
Class teachers appointed two monitors per class to make sure that no
mess was created by any student and that all were lined up as directed.
Apart from the monitors one helper was made available to make things
right.

3. For this system of improvement, only manpower resource in placement
of one Canteen staff at the entrance and two monitors from each class
were needed and thanks to this programme we realized the fact that in
order to bring a change we need to be that change.
Participants:-
Dristanta
Roktim
Ragini
Surya
Shreshth
Atlanta
Ashmita
Ridhwan
Bornil
Rahul