Thursday, 1 September 2022

7.1.5 MAINTENANCE OF CLEANLINESS, SANITATION, GREEN COVER




 

7.1.5       



Cleanliness

Our institution maintains plastic free campus.

Measures adopted to keep our campus clean

a)     Sweeping and mopping all hard surface flooring

b)    Vacuuming floors and carpets in administrative, classroom and dormitory building.

c)     Cleaning the walls, windows and other surfaces of rooms and buildings throughout the campus.

d)    Maintaining hand soaps and toiletries in public and dormitory rest rooms.

e)     Maintenance of floor drains to assure that floors drain and dry properly after cleaning.

f)      Proper storage of cleaning equipment and supplies to prevent rodents and pests.

g)     Use of effective and safe cleaning products in rest rooms, cafeterias and food preparation spaces.

h)    Maintain plastic free campus.

 

Measures adopted to keep our campus sanitation

a)     Providing sanitation facilities by providing toilets and latrines that flush in to a sewer or safe enclosure. There must be a bucket with water and a jug inside female latrines.

b)    Proper Health faucets were maintained in the bathroom.

c)     Promote good hygiene habits through education. Proper hand washing with soap and water can reduce diarrhoea.

d)    Providing clean and pure water through automatic water purifier.

e)     Provision of solid waste management facilities :

1)    Waste bins / buckets in each classroom and teacher’s office.

2)    Waste disposal pit at an appropriate location; a local incinerator can be used if the amount of college solid waste is significant.

3)    Waste handling facilities such as latrines, an incinerator.

4)    Sanitary Napkin incinerator is used for instant disposal of used napkins.

 

 

The covid 19 pandemic highlights the importance  of cleanliness, sanitation and hygiene to student’s health and wellbeing.

 

 

Measures adopted to keep our campus greenery

 

a)     Compost bin for food waste.

b)    Created a campus garden: Plant a garden to beautify your space or use it to grow some of your own vegetables.

c)     Grow your food: Created simple vegetable gardens in our nearby campus location.

 

d)    Green belt project : 

This project was started in the year 2014.  From that year onwards we maintained the plants in a good way. As a part of this project we planted near about 50 plants in the nearby campus. We mainly planted Nelli, Mahagony, Koovalam, Lakshmi tharu, Bamboo, Ariyaveppu  etc. In every year on June 5 th our college distribute one plant to each student. Through this project we keep our campus greenery.

 

 

YEAR

No.of trees planted

Total Acre

2015-16

100 nos

 

2.5 Acre

2016-17

50 nos

2017-18

50 nos

2018-19

50 nos

2019-20

100 nos

 

e)     Avani  natural club

 

BVNCTE  formed  an  AVANI nature club  in the year on 2017. The forest department of Kerala invited our college for participating a 3 days nature camp. Near about 40 students became the members of this club.







7.1.2 POLICY AND PROCEDURE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF WASTE MANAGEMENT



 

7.1.2  Institution has stated policy and procedure for implementation of waste management

 

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal and monitoring of waste materials.  The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics.

   Reducing waste is the most important thing we can do. By reducing waste we the unnecessary use of resources such as materials, energy and water.  The next most important thing we can do is reuse waste materials. In our institution we reuse waste by giving unwanted books to the school, use old jars for storage etc.

Provision of solid waste management facilities :

1)    Waste bins / buckets in each classroom and teacher’s office.

2)    Waste disposal pit at an appropriate location; a local incinerator can be used if the amount of college solid waste is significant.

3)    Waste handling facilities such as latrines, an incinerator.

4)    Sanitary Napkin incinerator is used for instant disposal of used napkins.

5)    Compost bin for food waste.

 

 

7.1.1 -INSTITUTION'S ENERGY POLICY

 

About the solar programme.

10,000 roof top solar power plant is a  pioneering program for decentralized power generation as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National solar mission (JNNSM ) being implemented by ANERT during the year 2012- 13. The programme uses stand alone rooftop solar panels and related equipments of 1 KW capacity .Each plant will be installed on 10,000 roof tops totalling to a generation capacity of 10 MW .The installation of the solar power plants to each roof top will be through agencies selected among the channel partners of ministry of New and renewable energy (MNRE), Government of India .

subsidy.      

Financial support from MNRE (Government of India ) and Government of Kerala is available for the program as detailed below :                            

  MNRE ( Government of India)-   Rupees 53 262 

state government                         -   Rupees 39 000 .           

Total subsidy                               -   Rupees 92 262.

  Subsidy would be claimed directly by the empanelled agency from ANERT.  5 years warranty for the entire system will be provided by the supplier as per the conditions of the contract.

 

Solar system is intended to be used as a standalone solar system and change over manually to the grid if battery goes low Separate change over switch is applied as part of distribution board to change over from solar inverter to grid and vice versa.

The application for the roof top solar Power plant under the "10000 roof- top solar Power plant project 2012- 13 has been given on 18/ 11/ 2015 by paying the registration fee of rupees 500 .  The registration number is SRP/ 2012/ 18086. This system provide 5 year warranty.

 

DIESEL GENERATING SET

In our institution we have a KOEL Green Genset rating 30 KVA Primed by Kirloskar diesel engine model 3R1040T diesel generator as an alternative source of energy for meeting our requirements.

Ways of energy conservation

·        At the end of each college day turn off all computers and screen .

·        Replaced all traditional light bulbs with energy saving one

·        Maximise natural lighting

·        Switch off before the holidays and weekends and midterm breaks.

·        Teach children to conserve water too

·        Aware the students about the alternative energy source.










 










7.1.9 CODE OF CONDUCT