Scrub-a-dub: Campus cleaning drive

To mark the beginning of a project on reducing the usage of and recycling plastics, a campus cleaning drive was organized in the college premises on 24 and 25 May 2024 at 12:30pm. The cleaning drive was organized by Rotaract club of the college in association with the Department of Physical Sciences & Mathematics. The drive commenced with the students assembling in the college quadrangle. They split into groups under the leadership of Arun Kumar, Rotaract president and Kanish Kumar, student leader, BSc. The student groups and faculty coordinators went around the campus and collected plastics and this was later sent for segregation to be recycled. The student volunteers participated with energy and enthusiasm.

We rovers and rangers guided the common people {electors} to proceed voting and also helped the elderly and aged people to go near the booth to follow up the voting functions and arrangements of the duty, also gave supporting hands to the handicap people to proceed voting.

Learning Outcome:
The cleaning drive helped at inculcating civic sense and social awareness among young student volunteers. Accumulating plastic is an environmental hazard. The cleaning and collection drive was aimed at reducing plastics and usage of it in the campus. Student volunteers also learnt about the importance of reducing the use of plastics and promoting environment friendly, biodegradable products.

We would like to thank our District secretary A N Narendra Kumar sir, Principal Rev Father Dr Binu, Vice principal Rev Father Jijo Jose and Rover scout leader Capt. Sampath Kumar R for their constant support and guidance.