9. Eco Club / Green Practices Committee :
Clubs play an important role in creating environmental awareness amongst the future generation. It offers programs and activities to encourage others to reduce pollution, plant trees, and more. Eco club is a voluntary group which promotes the participation of students in learning about, and improving their environment.
For teachers, it is a wonderful opportunity to create awareness, build attitudes and help students take up activities in real world, in a way in which the constraints of the classroom and curriculum will not allow. An eco club can thus help to extend boundaries and scope of the formal educational system encouraging creativity, and improving students for constructive action. Eco club activities can help the teacher to meet the objectives of environmental education, which are to create awareness and sensitivity among individuals and social groups to the total environment and its allied problems. Impart knowledge to help individuals and social groups gain a variety of experiences in and acquire a basic understanding of, the environment and its associated problems.
Build attitudes to help individuals and social groups acquire a set of values and feelings of concern for environment, and the motivation for actively participating in environmental improvement and protection. Teach skills to help individuals and social groups for identify and solve environmental problems.
Aims and Objecives of Club :
- To make the students understand the environment and environmental issues.
- To create awareness on Eco and clean among the students through various novel methods.
- To maintain cleanliness in and around the college campus.
- To create and friendly environment.
- To conserve the natural resources and the natural environment.
- Organize tree plantation programmes, awareness programmes such as quiz, essay, painting competitions.
- Sensitize the students to minimize the use of plastic bags.
- Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
- To promote culture of conservation of water by minimizing the use of water.
| Chairperson | : | Dr. Channabasava .A, Principal |
| Coordinator | : | Dr. Prashanth Konkal |
| Members | : | 1. Dr. Sundar Mety |
| : | 2. Dr. Sheshikanth Ummapure | |
| : | 3. Madhu, B.Sc V Sem | |
| : | 4. Uday Kumar, B.Sc III Sem | |
| : | 5. Harshita Hiremath, B.Sc I Sem |
Duties :
- To enroll members for the club and to create awareness among the students and the staff about the need for protection of natural habitat.
- To invite speakers to talk on environmental protection.
- To organise relevant programmes.
- To maintain the records of the activities conducted and submit the same to the IQAC Committee.
