Vadodara / Anand: One of the greenest districts in Gujarat is now also home to the first green university in the state.
Vallabh Vidyanagar Based on Sardar Patel University (SPU) in Anand District has been accredited as the first Green Gujarat University with Platinum rating.
The rating has been given by Green Mentors, the UN General Assembly Institute for Global Green Schooling and Green University Consents.
“Recognition is award for Sardar Patel in the 75th year of independence,” said SPU Deputy Character Professor Shirish Kulkarni.
The university not only utilizes the existing green cover, the heritage of the founder of the city but creates another green belt on a barren satellite campus from the Department of Biosciences.
“We enthusiastically rusting times to develop a balanced ecosystem with more than 450 species recorded from various forms of life including 90 species of trees, each more than 70 butterber and spiders, around 90 species of birds and a number of other forms of life, “Professor’s other head of the Department of Department KC Patel.
The campus development initiative was taken by Dr.
A Reddy had changed the barren soil of 30 hectares to biodiversity soil.
Students under Prof.
Ujval Trivedi not only have more than 1,000 photos of various species on social media but have studied and prepared different species checklists.
Now, an QR tree coding project is being carried out.
“We have reduced the use of papers for the most part,” said Registrants charging SPU, Dr.
Jyoti Tiwari.
“The majority of our departments have included environmental studies, teaching and research in other ways.” “Sustainable development is at the root of our university campus.
The well-planned municipality has a green envelope of more than 80 species of trees planted on the roadside, may have the highest number of trees in Gujarat in such a small area,” Vibha Vaishnav, Director of Honor Center Community science.