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Environmental body has students taking up tree

plantation anti-plastic

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and energy

audits

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SHASHWAT GUPTA RAY sis College, Pune. We plan

porters@sakaaltimes.com to adopt the .hillock near

ARAI, and at Sinhgad Col-

lege at Vadgaon to carry

out plantation activities,

Mathur said. .

Replacing plastic bags

In

another project, SECO will

replace plastic bags being.

used in shops in the college

campus with paper bags for

free. The name and logo of

.the sponsoring companies

will be printed on the bags,

which will riot only associ-

ate the company with envi-

ronment protection, it will

also be a medium of public-

ity for them.

Energy udit A group

from SECO was associated

with the energy audit exer-

cise of Bharat Sanchar Ni-

gam Ltd. (BSNL), a leading

telecom service provider, in

Pune Ankur Mathur, a sec-

ond year student of Chemi-

cal Engineering of Sinhgad

College of Engineering, has

a vision to promote envi-

ronmental awareness among

Pune youth and encourage

them towork towards having

sound environmental ethics.

Myproject aims to.make

youth aware and involved

them inworking for environ-

mental harmony.

An

effective

way to encourage them is to

provide them with a proper

platform for interaction with

the industry and the intelli-

gentsia, Mathur said.

As part of his project for,

the ICC 20l0, Mathur has

founded a student-run or-

ganisation - SECO - (Sinh-

vation Organisation), affili-

ated with Sinhgad Institutes,

Pune, which seeks to create

awareness about environ-

ment-related issues among

the youth. SECO has pari-

nered with many NGOs and

organisations for students

to be involved with com-

munity as well as industry-

based projects. Students are

also encouraged to carry out

research-based activities in

the fields of alternate energy

sources and climate change

mitigation, he said.

SECO initiatives

Tree plantation

SECO

has tied up with NGO The

Green Hills Group' for a

plantation drive at Hanu-

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Sinhgad iristitutes

students work for

plastic-free campus

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Pune: Students of Sinhgad in-

stitutes have formed an or-

ganisation 'Sinhgad Environ-

mental Conservation Organi-

sation' (SECO) to db their bit

for environment.

Aiming at making the cam-

cost, he said.

Ankur Mathur, member of

SECO said, During the BSNL

energy audit, wesuggested seg-

regation of organic waste,

switching to compact fluores-

cent lamp (CFL),change of tube

light fittings, among others. We

might conduct an energy audit

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Temperature

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31.5 21.9

t..OHEGAON

31.6 20.9

PAStIAH

30.9 20.7

Relative Humidity

PUNE LOftEGAON

81 94

Forecast for today

Rain or thundershowers wil~ _

occur in some areas

Average temperatur

26.6C

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LIM TE H MPS TO THE RES UE

The Internat ional Climate Change programme, a joint effort by the British. Council and The Energy and Resources Inst itute (TERO

across 60 countries, invites ideas for ecological sustainabi li ty, and funds them. This year, i t has highlighted 72 ideas from Indian

applicants. Out of these, six are Pune youth with innovative plans for eco-sustenance, finds itin rahme

Prachl Telang

Student, BSc(Physics),

Fergusson College

Her p ro ject Reducti on inener -

gy consumption through use of

reflectors in places where excess

l ight ing isusedfor creat ing ambi-

ence, such ashote ls. Shewi ll a lso

wor k on p lan ning o fwate r h ar - .

vesting plants according to the

water consumption of buildings.

Essentially, init iating a shift to

constructing eco-friendly build-

S tudent , S inha gad Ins tt o f

Business Admin Research

His

pro ject Biovi llage Centre:

Bio-energy conservation and

Commercial isation . He istaking

awareness camps for farmers

about cultivation of bio-fuel

p lants. Heaims to develop rural

entrepeneneurship for eco-friend-

Iyprojects, create employment in

backward areas by bringing tech-

nology and environment con-

Ankur Mathur

Student, S inhagad Ins ti tu te

of Engineering

His

pro ject Youth Environmen-

tal Activit ies. It includes planta-

t ion drives, and ini tiat ives t

0

find

eco-solut ions for Puneyouth. He

isundertaking a plantat ion drive

with Green Hil ls Organisat ion at

Chatuhshrungi Hill . He isthe

founder of the Sinhagadh Envi-

ronmental Conservation Drgani.

sation (SEeD), which is involved

Divesh

Kumar

Teacher, Late S itaram Abaj i

English Medium School

H asproject Sensitising low-in-

come communit ies in Puneto-

wards environmental and climate

change issues . This involves

increasing the knowledge of

school kids about the environ-

ment, and mot ivat ing them to

work towards stopping climate

changes from happening in the

f irst p lace. Divesh isteaching at

Bachelor of Science,

Fergusson College

Her p ro ject : Veh icular pol lu -

tion: Exploring the challenges in

implementing pollution control

and and award ing Pol lu tion un-

der Control (PUC)certificates.

Prachi is observing factors that

can lead to regular PUCchecks in

Puneci ty. She isworking on ways

of bringing changes and improve-

ments in PUCissuing practices

Dipika Chord

Dropped out o f s choo l, a ft er

S td XII

.Her project: Eco-sustanable

Community . Sheconducts eco-

experiments in Dhanep an dVel-

he. Sheand her family took over

bar ren land the re . I t i nc ludes re- .

forestation drives like planting

2,000 mango trees, 3,120 cashew

trees and 500 bamboo plants,

a long with 20,000 dif ferent t rees,

the f ru it s o f whi ch wil l sus ta in

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Priyanka Naithani

Five of the West India champs

of the British Council's Inter-

national Climate Champion's

programme are from the city.

.They all come from diverse

backgrounds, but their ulti-

mate aim is the same - to cre-

ate awareness about cl imate

change.

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Students from the Sinhgad

College of Engineering, Pune

- - to ok par t in a c andle l ig ht v ig i

onthe occasion of Earth Hour

March 27.The event was held

the Sinhgad Technical Educat

Society (STES)campus in

Wadgaon Budruk. Over 300

par ticipants took par t in the

vigil, held between 8.30 pm an

9.30 pm. Lights were also

switched off onthe campus

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PL AN ET EAR TH : Studen ts o f S inhagad Co llege a t Vadgaon Dhayr i obs er ve the Eart h Hour on Satu rday by swit chi ng o ff l ights and li gh ti ng cand les .