SRM
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ESTATE
OFFICE / KATTANKULATHUR
Notes on the “distribution of awards for
Swachhata Activities” at New Delhi on 03.12.2019
Date:
12.12.2019
“Swachh Campus” Ranking 2019
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a
clean India mission formulated by the Indian Government and it creates great
initiative among the citizens of whole India making themselves aware of the
importance of cleanliness. This mission aims to ensure sanitary facilities for
all households and to eliminate open defecation in rural area apart from
teaching the citizens to dispose of the waste mindfully to ensure hygienic and
Green environment.
Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is an
ancillary initiative triggered by the Ministry of Human Resource Development
involving all HEIs to address the issues of local communities through
appropriate technology.
The objectives of UBA are:
1.
Building institutional
capacity in Institutes of higher education in research and training relevant to
the needs of rural India.
2.
Provide Rural India with
professional resource support from Institutes of Higher Education especially
those which have acquired academic excellence in the field of science E&T
and management.
Swachhata Ranking award has
been presented by the Ministry of Human Resource Development every year as a
part of Swachh Bharat Mission to promote environment hygiene in the Higher
Education institutes by involving powerful and influential base of Students and
Teachers in the country and the awards are distributed based on the evaluation
report of the Expert team nominated by the UGC and AICTE after evaluating
required parameters.
SRM Institute of Science and
Technology has participated in the “Swachh Campus” Ranking 2019, with reference
to the call given by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the ranking
was decided on the following factors.
1.
Toilets adequacy and
Maintenance
2.
Garbage clearance systems
3.
Hostel Kitchen hygiene and
sophistication of equipment
4.
Water purity, Storage,
Distribution facility
5.
Campus greenery and Rain water
Harvesting
6.
Use of solar Systems.
7.
Village or neighborhood
adoption for hygiene.
The expert committee nominated by
AICTE has visited our campus on 07.09.2019 and evaluated all the above factors with
reference to the required parameters.
Few salient features of the
available facilities in our campus.
v We
are maintaining a toilet Student ratio of 1: 2.3, which is the Highest among
the participating Institutes.
v We
have installed Solar System to Generate 1 MV Power.
v We
have facilities like automated lighting system, solar Cooking System, Biogas
Plant, Rain Water Harvesting Pits etc.
v We
have a good Solid Waste Management system and the compost generated is used for
Plants / Trees to make the Campus more greenery.
v Our
Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) with latest technologies (M.B.B.R- Moving Bed Bio
film Reactor) helps us to treat the sewage water rapidly, which is used in our
dual plumbing system for Toilet cleaning.
Based on the report of the
expert committee, SRM Institute of Science and Technology has been ranked No.1
under the category of AICTE – Residential Universities by Ministry of Human
Resource Development.
Clean and Smart Campus award – 2019
Clean and smart campus award
is awarded by AICTE with an aim to engage all stakeholders particularly the
student community to implement the technological interventions for cleanliness,
sustainability and environment in the rural sector. The smart campus would
ensure smart citizens, those who are “future-ready” for the smarter
India. AICTE has formulated the awards under different categories and SRM
Institute of Science and Technology comes under the category of “University /
Deemed to be Universities running technical courses approved by AICTE. It is an
activity undertaken by AICTE to boost the morale among the students to take
forward the Swachhata activities to a greater height.
The factors considered for the
award are:
v Cleanliness
in and around the campus and waste minimization.
v Water
conservation and management including Waste water management and rouse rain
water harvesting etc.
v Environment
friendly activities adopted and practiced by the campus.
v Greenery
within the campus to provide pollution free air and carbon sink.
The team nominated by AICTE visited
our campus and evaluated all required parameters of the above mentioned
factors.
Based on their recommendation,
the AICTE awarded 3rd Place for Clean
and smart campus-2019.
One Student One Tree award 2019
AICTE under the guidance of Ministry
of Human Resource Development has launched a drive to plant Tree Saplings
involving Students / Faculties of all Higher Education Institutes across India
under a plan “One Students One Tree”.
The guidelines for this drive
are as follows:
v Students
and Faculties from the Institutes to Plant a tree.
v The
name of the person who planted the Tree to be put up.
v Institutions
to Maintain details of Tree Planted by Students / Facilities
The students / Faculties /
Staff of Institute of Science and Technology have taken active role in the
drive and planted lot of trees in the campus, roadside, tank bunds and also in
the UBA adopted villages to improve the Sustainability and greenery with the
team work of maintenance and Agriculture departments.
SRM Institute of Science and
Technology has been awarded 1st Place under “One Students One Tree”
The ceremony for distributing all
the above three awards was held at New Delhi on 03.12.2019, in which our
Registrar and Dean IQAC participated and the Registrar received the awards from
the Hon’ble Minister of HRD .The event added few more feathers on the cap of
SRMIST.
All this happened due to the magnanimous
support extended by the Management, unstinting support of the Faculties/
non-teaching staff and the consistent and sincere efforts taken by all the
Maintenance teams and horticulture Wing of the Campus.
Let all of us work together
with the same spirit and tempo to achieve more rewards in future also.
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