The Government ITI, Brahmapur has bagged the Greener Tomorrow Award-2021 for recycling.
Union Minister of Environment Aswini Kumar Choubey highly appreciated the recycling work from scraps done by the institute. Principal of the ITI Dr Rajat Kumar Panigrahy said that the method is highly sustainable as throughout the year scraps are generated and available locally.
This method of imparting skill through waste management is innovative. Notably, the work has been accepted in the national level and published in the book chapter “Recycling of Scrap from Technical Institutes: A Case Study, Government ITI Berhampur” in the book captioned “ Waste Management as Economic Industry towards Circular Economy” published by Springer Nature, Singapore Private Limited, one of the leading book publishers of the world.
The general public/school children are highly educated and are made aware of waste management to reuse the waste. Particularly the institute trainees will be warriors of the planet to lead sustainability, Institute Principal Dr Panigrahy claimed.
The elephant sculpture park and tiger sculpture park, the brain child of the Government ITI, Brahmapur make a very good social message to protect the wild animals, Dr Panigrahy pointed out.
Speaking on the innovative process, Dr Panigrahy said they collect automobile scraps, metal scrap, e-waste, plastic waste, iron bars from demolished buildings and transformers to use them in highly valued scrap sculptures through various engineering process. The students have made more than 30 beautiful sculptures from 6ft to 32ft and installed them in the Scrap Sculpture Park, which is the largest such park of Asia.