Industries might soon have students knocking at their doors. Not for projects or internships, but to explain the need for energy conservation and energy efficiency.
Students, those in schools and colleges, are increasingly trained by voluntary organisations, government departments, and even trade bodies to take conservation and environment concepts to the public. There are energy and water ambassadors.
Apart from regular awareness campaigns, training programmes, and technical workshops, these organisations involve students so that youngsters also learn more about conservation, say sources. The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Organisation (Tangedco) is training energy ambassadors in Coimbatore region, covering Coimbatore, Tirupur, and the Nilgiris districts. Last year, about 1,300 school students were trained to become energy ambassadors and they took the message of energy conservation to households and commercial establishments.
This year, college students are to be trained. And some industrial organisations have also evinced interest.
According to the Tangedco Chief Engineer T. Haldorai, the region has about 130 engineering and polytechnic colleges. The plan is to identify five or six students in the mechanical and EEE streams from each institution and train them. They will take the message to the industries.
The Tangedco also gets better rating for its energy conservation efforts, he said. “The concept of ambassadors has been successful for us. Of the 1,300 school students we trained, at least 1,000 took efforts to reach out to their friends and establishments and explain the need for energy conservation and efficiency,” he said.
(reporting by
M. Soundariya Preetha)
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