Youth clean up campus premises
Published on April 04, 2015 12:39:39 PM
A group of city college students have under taken a mission to change the society, when their peers are idling away time in hostels. Pained by the sight of mounting piles of garbage in their campus, these youngsters have gone to an an extreme step considered impossible- to clean up their campus and go for a green drive.
Meet Ajay Kumar Koli Koli, who is about to complete his PhD in Management Studies soon, from University of Hyderabad.
In 2013, a group of people led by Koli,launched the Free Service group.Their first task was to collect donations for the Uttarakhand flood victims.
To their surprise they were able to collect Rs. 44,000 and handed over it to the university for the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund.
Koli thanked the generous contribution given by the university students and faculty for their initiative.
Their Facebook page that also became active around that time also had many followers.
Then Koli and his team turned to the issue of greening the campus to give the barren campus a facelift, especially during the summers.
They transported 12 tractors of fertile soil to make a beautiful green lawn near the food court popularly called –Gops.
He said, he got enough encouragement from the then Vice Chancellor of UoH Ram Ramaswami.
The university had provided enough financial resources and to ensure transparency Koli had put up all the bills on Facebook.
They also put garbage bins across the university campus made of steel tins. He said, this initiative received enormous support from the students as they were facing the problems created due to lack of waste disposing mechanism in the campus.
Koli recalled that the students were not able to rise from their comfort zones and preferred to engage in online activism rather than dirtying their hands by cleaning the campus premises.
The group also painted speed breakers in the campus to create traffic awareness among the students.
"Our mission is to make the campus a better place to live,” Koli said.
Meet Ajay Kumar Koli Koli, who is about to complete his PhD in Management Studies soon, from University of Hyderabad.
In 2013, a group of people led by Koli,launched the Free Service group.Their first task was to collect donations for the Uttarakhand flood victims.
To their surprise they were able to collect Rs. 44,000 and handed over it to the university for the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund.
Koli thanked the generous contribution given by the university students and faculty for their initiative.
Their Facebook page that also became active around that time also had many followers.
Then Koli and his team turned to the issue of greening the campus to give the barren campus a facelift, especially during the summers.
They transported 12 tractors of fertile soil to make a beautiful green lawn near the food court popularly called –Gops.
He said, he got enough encouragement from the then Vice Chancellor of UoH Ram Ramaswami.
The university had provided enough financial resources and to ensure transparency Koli had put up all the bills on Facebook.
They also put garbage bins across the university campus made of steel tins. He said, this initiative received enormous support from the students as they were facing the problems created due to lack of waste disposing mechanism in the campus.
Koli recalled that the students were not able to rise from their comfort zones and preferred to engage in online activism rather than dirtying their hands by cleaning the campus premises.
The group also painted speed breakers in the campus to create traffic awareness among the students.
"Our mission is to make the campus a better place to live,” Koli said.
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