Vadodara: M S University’s Faculty of Science will develop the area along Bhukhi Kaans, the tributary of Vishwamitri river that passes from the campus, as ecological experimental site for students.
By involving students and teachers from multiple departments, the university has restored a part of the stream.
On Saturday marking the World Environment Day, the stretch was declared as ecological experimental site.
“Students of all the departments of Faculty of Science along with those from the Institute of Climate Change, departments of civil and electrical and electronics engineering and others can now study varied aspects of science and set up multidisciplinary nature of experiments,” said Dr Kauresh Vachhrajani, head of department of environmental studies.
“A region of it is restored and in part newly developed ecosystem while the remaining region is undisturbed natural ecosystem.
A comparison of this over the years will certainly tell us the success story,” he said.
The faculty is also developing a waste disposal policy.
On January 4, last year, students of the department had proposed ecological restoration of Bhukhi within the campus.
Studies on different aspects of Bhukhi were carried out by students of botany department led by Dr Padamnabhi Nagar too joined the ecological restoration program.
They constructed an ecowall along the botanical garden as a replacement of concrete wall for controlling soil erosion and damage to the bank area.
The construction division helped in the structuring of the bank.
“In last three months, this ecowall has well established and has withstood the impact of recent cyclonic rainfall.
We are now replicating this in other parts along Bhukhi within the campus,” Nagar said.
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The university’s Department of Botany had bagged the national project from the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, to promote the plant that had shot to limelight during Covid-19 pandemic.