Students on green mission

Campaign: Plastic waste collected; CFL bulbs distributed

The students successfully underook ‘Anti-plastic campaign’  under the banner of Aspera, the NEN Entrepreneurship Cell at the college on the second day  of the event, here on Sunday.

Deccan Herald and Prajavani are the media partners for this event.  Arned with gunny bags, more than 200 enthusiastic students took part in the drive to rid the hills off plastic, that is abundantly found, despite of  ban on using plastic in the shrine.

When the drive completed, all 62 gunny bags had been filled with plastic, holding  mirror to the laxity on the part of authorities concerned in keeping the law.  The waste was later handed over to Mysore City Corporation (MCC) for recycling.

Earlier, inaugurating the campaign, Mayor Sandesh Swamy said that even though Chamundi Hills is declared a ‘No plastic zone’, the awareness among people is meagre. Also, there was a lack of interest among the people to keep the surrounding free of plastic.

He urged the people to ensure that they don’t dump plastic during enroute to  the religious place.

The students urged the mayor to install dust bins at regular intervals on the steps so that people would refrain from dirtying the surroundings. Apart from students of VVCE, various other colleges too participated in the event- JSS Polytechnic, DMS, Vidyavardhaka Polytechnic and Sarada Vilas.

The youngsters prepared for event by informing their folk through social networking websites and sending SMS’ to friends.

Deputy Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath, former mayor Purushotham, Councillors T V Girish Prasad and M D  Parthasarathi, MCC Health Officer Dr Nagaraj, Public Health and Education Standing Committee President Ratnamma Shantaveerendra Swamy, Head of the Department, Environmental Engineering, VVCE Dr H S Dayananda, were present.

In an awareness drive on using   CFL bulbs, Aspera members visited various houses in areas such as Gokulam and Vijayanagar.Later, they asked the residents to give away incandescent bulbs being used in their homes in exchange for CFLs. More than 300 CFLs were distributed on the occasion.

Students also participated in pottery making in the college premises.  Aspera members led by Sushma designed pots as part of their entrepreneurship venture.

DH News Service