PRAVRIDHI

 

In its 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), the UN conjures eco-club as a forum that serves as paraphernalia for taking up meaningful environmental activities and projects for the public through youths. Eco clubs in schools, colleges, universities fortify students on gaining concepts, catalyzing them into actions on environmental crises in transcending the confines of the syllabus and classroom studies and making a difference at the grassroots. Moreover, it approves students’ in influencing their surroundings by involving parents, neighborhoods, communities in combatting environmental crises.

Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women (SRCASW) ensures that the concept of learning to live sustainably does not remain as a peripheral issue and does not render to the formalities. It acknowledges and accedes to the current climate and environmental crises that have created an air of gravitas; it warrants the call for the youths as harbinger and beacon to resolve this crisis not to go unheard. Furthermore, the SRCASW coheres with the notion that the eco-club is not a facile center to conduct the extracurricular activity but a laboratory for generating empirical learning to the students in the environment. With these intentions, SRCASW came up with an Eco club in 2005. It was started by teachers and students who were experts and were deeply sensitized to addressing environmental issues. It was raised in collaboration with MoEF as a part of the National Green Corps initiative of the government of India, 2001. The Eco-club was given PRAVRIDHI, meaning ‘encouragement and intensification of the actions to create a sustainable environment.’

PRAVRIDHI aims to create and incorporate environmental awareness and sustainable development through various activities in and around the college. It recognizes the significance and the pivotal role of the students and youths in safeguarding future sustainability that will improve the environment. The society conducts various activities, workshops, and interactive sessions that help students understand local issues in the global context.

PRAVRIDHI endeavors and conjures to create an accessible and inclusive infrastructure that is inspiring and motivating to everyone with a special focus on the youths. It ensures to engage students, teachers, and the general public, through the spectrum of activities. Moreover, it maintains the dissemination and dissipation of the information through videos, flyers, pamphlets, and presentations consistently uploaded on the web page and various social handles (Facebook, Instagram). This includes a year-long awareness campaign, ‘Plant of the week.’ The objective was to highlight and make aware of the importance of herbal plants by emanating information on their practical usages in our daily lives. Yet, in another example, awareness was created on the endangered species through the ‘animal of the month’ campaign. Thus, PRAVRIDHI creates awareness and educates people on eco-friendly practices and the impacts of climate change through information on natural disasters.

Objectives and Ambitions

·       In promoting and building environmental ethos and providence to the resource usage by optimizing their usage and imbibing habits through sustainable practices.

·       In inculcating the proper attitude towards the environment.

·       In fostering environmental awareness and sustainable development in the students through collaborations with environmental societies, organizations, institutions, other colleges, and NGOs.

·       In developing essential skills of the observations through experimentations, surveys, recordings, analysis and reasoning towards environmental conservation, and mitigation of the environmental problems.

·       In supervising the activities that recognize the significance and the pivotal role of the students in safeguarding future sustainability.

·       In empowering students to solve the environmental crisis by encouraging participation in meaningful environmental activities and projects.

·       In addressing the grievances on climate change and environmental issues to the teaching, non-teaching staff, and general public.

·       Providing scaffolding in a way that helps the students display their skills, creativity, logic, and free-thinking accurately, followed by fading out the need for scaffolding so that they become confident and independent in taking up the right scientific inquiry.

·        Providing paraphernalia to the students through information and guidance in helping them create their start-ups equipped with green techniques, sustainable services, and products.

Structure of The Pravridhi

 

Team and various members of PRAVRIDHI Eco-club: 2021-2022

1.         Head, Eco-club: Dr. Payal Mago, Principal, SRCASW

2.         Convenor: Dr. Rekha Mehrotra, HOD, Department of Microbiology)

3.         Co-convenor: Ms. Prachi Singh, Environmental Studies

4.        Committee Members:

4.1.  Dr. Manoj Jaiswal, Department of Physics

4.2.  Dr. Neha Katyal, Department of Electronics

4.3.  Dr. Richa Sharma, Department of Microbiology

4.4.  Dr. Smita Sundaram, Environmental Studies

4.5.  Mr. Rituraj Anand, English

5.        Student Council:

5.1.  President – Ms. Arunima, Microbiology

5.2.  Vice President – Ms. Khushi Khera, Microbiology

5.3.  Public Relation (PR) – Ms. Rupa Yadav, Chemistry

5.4.  Social Media & Website manager – Ms. Tarushi, Chemistry

5.5.  Creative Head – Ms. Shivam Rathi, Physics

5.6.  Treasurer – Ms. Angelika Bardhana, Physics

6.        Student Members: