Prasagraj: When the government and various organizations try to protect the environment encourage people to remove dangerous single plastic use, the authority of Allahabad University (AU) has also taken initiatives and steps not only to stop using plastic using a single on campus but also spread awareness of opposing Single plastic use in everyday life.
For this purpose, the University Administration has roamed the Senior Faculty and Bachelor of Research to lead efforts to make campuses to make campuses.
Free of single plastic in all forms.
After the initiative of the Deputy Chancellor AU, Prof.
Sangita Srivastava, a dedicated team had been formed on a campus called a committee to remove single plastic use ‘.
The committee was led by Prof.
Sheo Mohan Prasad from the botanical department and regular events such as drive awareness, a visit to the department to motivate teachers and students to embrace the working style that is more environmentally friendly with a planned single use plastic.
According to Public Relations (PRO) AU officials, “Varsity administration is determined to make the free campus of plastic using a single and therefore the same thing has been banned on campus”.
The committee formed for the task includes the Professors and Head of Department (HODs) such as the Head of the Geography Department, Prof.
Ar Siddiqui, who carried out a consciousness mission in this regard and visited all departments and offices located on the Faculty of Art Campus.
And has urged the teachers, staff and students to stop using polythene, fiber plastic cups among others told Pro.
Faculty members, scholars and students also take an appointment to free AU campuses from single plastic use and resolve to make it all teachers, staff, and students aware of the bad effect, he added.
The University Grant (UGC) commission in September 2019 has issued guidelines for higher education institutions throughout the country to impose a single plastic ban.
This step has reduced Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a mass movement against a single plastic use from October 2, which has marked the 150-year anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
This guideline mandates that each higher education institution in this country must ban plastic use of single use in the canteen, hostels and shopping complexes at the place of the institution and carry out the workshop of consciousness and sensitization workshops on the harmful impact of plastic single use.
This guideline also mandates all students to avoid carrying non-biodegradable plastic items to institutions, installing alternative facilities needed such as unit water to prevent the use of the plastic.
Through a letter dated June 9, 2021, UGC Secretary Rajnish Jain once again urged the institution to implement this guideline and also conducted various activities while following Covid-19 prevention guidelines including essay competition among students and hackathons among students and beginners to promote innovation in the field Round material, circular economy, etc.