campus painted GREEN

Go Green day’ was an awareness campaign organised in the campus by the Social Work department REACH on Tuesday. REACH stands for Research Education Action Change which was formed earlier this year. The students came together wearing green in support of the cause. 25 students volunteered for the cause and performed a skit to alert people about conserving energy. More than 100 people supported the volunteers by walking around the campus and shouting slogan ‘Go Green, Save Earth’. The volunteers talked to the students and explained about Go Green.

Mr Benson, a lecturer of Social Work department said, “Go green is a larger process. This is just a teaser. Green stands for sustainable development. Copenhagen concludes tomorrow and this is in a way related to it. This has definitely woken up the campus.”

“It made a lot of impact on people. We wanted to do something which is related to our subjects. The core members of the association came up with this idea,” said Gangamma of II MSW who is the president of REACH.
Simi of II MSW, a Volunteer, said, “We started by chanting slogans across the campus. We also spoke to people and explained the concept of Go Green. We are not against genetic engineering, but we are against it being used in agriculture.”
John Paul of I MSW who actively took part in the campaign explained about various issues related to environment. He said, “The response was good and people were curious to know what was happening. We are not trying to convince people to stop using plastic, but telling them to use less plastic. We are trying to discourage people from using genetically modified food and endorse organic food.”
REACH has taken up several activities to sensitise people about the use of plastic, aforestation, conservation, genetically modified food and other environment related issues as part of its agenda.