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The Maulana Azad National Institute of Technical Education (MANIT) has come under the scanner once again, this time for allegedly burning garbage inside the campus and also destroying the in campus forest. Significantly, burning garbage at open places is against the norms.
Volunteer organisation Parakram Jansevi Sansthan (PJS) has lodged complaints to multiple authorities including Central Pollution Control Board, MP Pollution Control Board, MHRD New Delhi, Commissioner Bhopal Municipal Corporation and few other authorities.
The organization has claimed that with the apparent negligence and slackness of MANIT administration, almost 90 per cent of forest present on the institute campus, sprawled over an area of ‘650 acre’ has been affected by fires. “The big trees have been affected while the smaller ones have been destroyed in the fires,” alleged Sharad Singh Kumre general secretary PJS.
Kumre stated that earlier wild animals like rabbits, jackals, fox and others were found in the forest but now these animals are no where to be seen.
Kumre alleged that the garbage generated out of staff quarters, hostels and other residential blocks is burnt inside the institute campus, which leads to generation of harmful gases. He alleged that there is a provision of house keeping budget but the same is not utilized properly. “The institute top brass makes tall claims of making the institute an ideal one but the reality is entirely different,” alleged Kumre.
The volunteer activist has demanded that the garbage should be sent for re-cycling, institute should be made polythene free and liquor free, there should an absolute ban of felling of trees in campus, ground water harvesting in the campus, battery run vehicles and various other eco-friendly measures.
The volunteer wing also has requested students’ units of the institute; Prayas, Rotrack and Student Council for extending support for the drive for making institute eco-friendly.
However, the institute Registrar Savita Raje refuted the allegations of burning the garbage inside the campus and claimed that municipal corporation trucks collect the garbage from the campus. She also added that no one is destroying the forests on the Rs 442 acre’ campus.
The Maulana Azad National Institute of Technical Education (MANIT) has come under the scanner once again, this time for allegedly burning garbage inside the campus and also destroying the in campus forest. Significantly, burning garbage at open places is against the norms.
Volunteer organisation Parakram Jansevi Sansthan (PJS) has lodged complaints to multiple authorities including Central Pollution Control Board, MP Pollution Control Board, MHRD New Delhi, Commissioner Bhopal Municipal Corporation and few other authorities.
The organization has claimed that with the apparent negligence and slackness of MANIT administration, almost 90 per cent of forest present on the institute campus, sprawled over an area of ‘650 acre’ has been affected by fires. “The big trees have been affected while the smaller ones have been destroyed in the fires,” alleged Sharad Singh Kumre general secretary PJS.
Kumre stated that earlier wild animals like rabbits, jackals, fox and others were found in the forest but now these animals are no where to be seen.
Kumre alleged that the garbage generated out of staff quarters, hostels and other residential blocks is burnt inside the institute campus, which leads to generation of harmful gases. He alleged that there is a provision of house keeping budget but the same is not utilized properly. “The institute top brass makes tall claims of making the institute an ideal one but the reality is entirely different,” alleged Kumre.
The volunteer activist has demanded that the garbage should be sent for re-cycling, institute should be made polythene free and liquor free, there should an absolute ban of felling of trees in campus, ground water harvesting in the campus, battery run vehicles and various other eco-friendly measures.
The volunteer wing also has requested students’ units of the institute; Prayas, Rotrack and Student Council for extending support for the drive for making institute eco-friendly.
However, the institute Registrar Savita Raje refuted the allegations of burning the garbage inside the campus and claimed that municipal corporation trucks collect the garbage from the campus. She also added that no one is destroying the forests on the Rs 442 acre’ campus.
