A daylong online workshop for faculty of higher educational institutions of Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India) was organised at Rabindranath Tagore University. The webinar was held on Friday.
The theme of this online workshop was “Clean Action Plan and Jal Shakti Campus”. The resource person for this online workshop was Khyati Dhurve of MGNCE.
The purpose of this workshop was to provide information about all aspects of cleanliness as well as to enable higher educational institutions to overcome the problems of sustainable sanitation and water management in rural and urban areas. In this workshop organised in three sessions, there was a wide discussion on cleanliness action plan (SAP) sanitation and hygiene and energy and water conservation.
In the first session, Khyati Dhurve gave information about the SAP guidelines, governance policies and programme framework through case studies and discussions. In the second session, sustainable development, green audit policy, advanced India campaign, community engagement was highlighted. Comparative study of green audit of various educational institutions was also done.
Detailed information of water power manual was given in the third session. Regarding the methods of water and energy conservation was explained. In the end all participants submitted online assignments.
On the occasion of the conclusion of the workshop, the university's registrar, Vijay Singh, said that the university is working for cleanliness in the village under the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan.
He further said that with this workshop, teachers and students in higher educational institutions will get a better opportunity to work in rural communities.
Convener of this programme, Kiran Mishra, Head of the Department of Education said that the purpose of this workshop was to give information about the Cleanliness Action Plan and Jal Shakti Campus Campaigns so that active participation of higher educational institutions can be made. Rekha Gupta, Dean of the Faculty of Education gave vote of thanks. A large number of faculty and participants were present in this workshop.