For strengthening the environmental commitment of students at college level in the State, Directorate of Environment & Climate Change (DoECC) has launched the ‘Bhoo Mithra Sena’ programme. Through this programme, it is intended to establish Bhoomithra Sena Clubs (BMCs) in all districts through the colleges of the State. Now it is extended to Higher Secondary Schools in the State as well. A unit of BMC is actively functioning at Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology , since 2013.

Objectives 

• To encourage the students to appreciate environment and environmental issues of the locality
• To provide environmental education opportunities for students and involve them in addressing environmental issues of the locality
• To utilize the enormous manpower available with students as conduits for awareness of the society 
• To make students practice and advocate sustainable lifestyles
• To improve the overall environmental quality of the institution.

Activities

• Organize Seminars, debates, lectures and popular talks on environmental issues in the College/ Schools and surrounding areas. Field visits to local environmentally important sites including polluted and degraded sites, wild life parks, coastal areas, etc. Organize awareness camps to propagate waste minimization, personal hygiene habits and sustainable life styles. Observance of at least two of the following environmentally significant days.

         World Wetland day – 2nd February

         World Forestry day – 21st March

         World Water day – 22nd March

         World Meteorological day – 23rd March

         World Earth day – 22nd April

         International Bio Diversity day – 22nd May

         World Environment Day – 5th June

         World Ocean Day – 8th June

         World Ozone Day – 16th September

         National Pollution Prevention Day – 2nd December

• Mobilize awareness against environmentally unsound practices like garbage disposal in unauthorized places, unsafe disposal of hospital wastes, etc.
• Actions based activities like tree plantation, cleanliness drives within and outside the campus, maintain waste management units, construct water harvesting structures, practice recycling etc. 
• Prepare inventories of polluting sources; take mitigation measures if possible, and if not, forward it to enforcement agencies.
• Monitor the water quality of water bodies in and around the campus, including drinking water sources and ascertains its potability and suitability of use. The concerned district office of KSPCB will assist in water quality testing etc.
• Curriculum related assignments on local environmental issues including pollution monitoring, biodiversity surveys, Waste management, documentation of indigenous traditional knowledge etc
• Prepare locally relevant resource materials.

Reports

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