Bhopal: NAAC cell of Madhya Pradesh has come up with a new initiative and launched ‘Harit Vasundhara Abhiyan (Green Earth Campaign)’ with an aim to develop environmental awareness and love for greenery among the youth. The initiative has been taken by the department of higher education. Higher education minister Mohan Yadav launched the drive from Ujjain on Friday. He said that to reduce the ever-increasing temperature in the world and preserve the greenery of earth it is really very important to plant trees.

“At the time of the Corona pandemic, we realized the importance of oxygen. Through ‘Harit Vasundhara’, students will not only plant saplings but will also understand their responsibility towards society,” Yadav said.

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The college will motivate the students to plant 100 saplings every year under the campaign. The first-year students will plant a sapling on the college campus as green ambassadors and will also take care of the plant during the study period.

Before leaving the college, they will assign the task of taking care of the plant to a fresher first-year student. The college will ensure to plant at least 100 saplings on its campus in a year. Apart from this, the college will encourage students and employees to plant saplings on various occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, environment days, earth days, water days, nature days, etc. The student who planted maximum trees and took care of them would be honored as Green Ambassador of the institute in the final year.

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A teacher will be appointed as the nodal officer and a boy or a girl student will be appointed as the student coordinator. In the colleges having an eco-club, the in-charge will be made the nodal officer. The records of GPS-tagged photographs will be maintained by the nodal officer on a quarterly basis to ensure the growth of the plant.

(Inputs from The Free Press Release)