S ustainable
Initiatives
Tarang- A wave to sustainable minds
We at NSS, IIT Bombay believe that sustainability can be also achieved through small daily life practice. Following to this, we also launched our YouTube channel 'Tarang- A wave to sustainable minds' so that our efforts can reach an even larger audience. The channel contains simple, yet engaging videos to address the issue of highlighting such practices and encouraging more and more people to follow them.
Donations
"Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference!. The various items collected during the different collection drives in the institute are then given to different NGOs, costruction workers sites, and local stations around Mumbai.
BMC School Visit
Under the sustainability initiative, a new chapter has been started by NSS IIT- Bombay in the form of BMC school visits. The vision behind this initiative to promote Sustainability among young minds.We conduct sessions in schools for students of class 6th to 10th which focus on instilling the importance of saving resources, reusing, recycling and incorporating sustainable practices in day-to-day lives.
Cloth Collection Drive and Graduation Collection Drive
he Cloth Collection Campaign(CCC) is held over the course of the complete academic year. It is further broken down to 2 phases- Phase 1, held in October involves collection from the student hostels, which includes making of interactive donation boxes by the volunteers, putting them up in visible, common areas in each hostel followed by regular collection of the donated items. Phase 2, held in March, is conducted in the professor residences.
Best Out of Waste
A very large number of flex banners and plastic bottles are used all around the institute throughout the year. We innovatively came up with an idea of reusing these. Flexes were collected by our volunteers and were made into sapling covers and flex carry bags. Flex bags were distributed in the campus shops whereas the sapling covers rest in peace in the NSS nursery caressing tender saplings. Plastic Bottles were collected from every hostel canteen and were used to make stools which were later kept in some of the food eatries.
SCD and Book Collection
Learning should never be held captive by materialistic things, There are many children around us, who never have the opportunity to learn, not because they didn't, but because they couldn't. They did not have the same opportunities as we all have got. SCD provides a platform for the hostel residents, to purchase small stationery items and donate it to these children, who are in need, but are not able to afford them.
Republic Day
Every Year, on the occasion of Republic Day, NSS, IIT Bombay, displays a skit relating the audiences to many of the ongoing issues, highlighting them and providing plausible solutions to the same. The event is held on the Gymkhaana Grounds in front of various dignitaries of the institute, students, faculty residences and the children and parents of the nearby Kendriya Vidyalaya.
Eco Friendly Ganesh Workshop
Ganesh Clay idol making is one awareness and change activity that we immediately need to practice. Many NSS and non-NSS volunteers participated in the clay-idol making workshop organized by the staff club of IIT Bombay. Some people also decided to travel an extra mile on the eco friendly road and chose to put seeds inside the idols which where then immersed in a pot rather than water bodies and grown into beautiful plants.
Animal Vaccination Drive
Around 100 dogs in the campus were given the anti rabies vaccination by the experts from Welfare of Stray Dogs Society. Help and Support was provided by the NSS volunteers as well as the members of the "Animal Rescue group" of IIT Bombay, comprising of dog lovers which includes various professors, students and residents of the campus!
Field Vist
"People do not take trips for a memorable experience, the trips take people to a memorable experience". Our team visited Talegaon, (a leading producer of Onions) to create a discussion with local Farmers on problems with contemporary ways of Irrigation and bring them a solution in the form of a device which measures moisture and temperature of soil as well as air, developed by Professor Tapanendu Kundu of Physics Department, IIT Bombay.
Parivartan
In line with our offline initiatives which involves groundwork to spread awareness about sustainanbility in the institute, 'Parivartan- The Sustainability Blog" is an effort to reach out to the rapidly-increasing blog reading public. The blog also includes a follow-up on the recent developments that have been occuring related to the topic and the entertaining "Word of the Blog'; which focusses on a word discussed in the blog ans is worth highlighting again.
Zero Waste Week and General Championship
The Zero Waste Week was organised from 24th to 30th September with the purpose of the week long activities being to create awareness among the residents of the institute about the importance of minimising the various kinds of waste that is being generated around us. We believe, that individual efforts, if done with honesty and dedication, could make a big impact in creating a sustainable tomorrow. This was followed by an inter-hostel Zero Waste Week General Championship.
