An array of activities such as creating awareness on best sanitation practices and plastic-free environment besides spearheading a cleanliness drive earned the NSS Youth Club of Government Women’s Degree College here the State-level first place in Swachh Bharat Summer Internship (SBSI)-2019.
The NSS Youth Club comprising Triveni, Umadevi, Srujana, Vaishnavi, Sandhya, Shabana and Anusha was adjudged the best team at the State level for spending about 68 hours in a span of 17 days in organising Swachhatha activities as part of the experiential SBSI programme.
The team bagged the honour by the virtue of conducting a wide spectrum of activities such as construction of compost pits, wall painting and conducting awareness campaigns highlighting practices to manage plastic and organic waste and segregation of solid waste at the household level for its scientific disposal.
Apart from the prescribed activities under the SBSI, the team also participated in a massive clean-up drive conducted by the district administration to remove aquatic weed from the Munneru riverbed in the town last month. The team members also took part in Jal Shakti Abhiyan featuring construction of water harvesting structures in the water-stressed areas in Khammam division.
Report sent
The Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangatan has forwarded a report based on the contribution of the team to the cause of raising awareness on cleanliness to the national-level SBSI award committee for its perusal, sources said.
“We have constructed a compost pit on the hostel premises inside our college campus and conducted a host of other activities in the town and Mudigonda mandal to bring about behavioural change at the community level for effective solid waste management,” said the team leader Triveni, a B.Sc final-year student of the college.
“Our awareness programmes were focused on highlighting the simple interventions such as segregating household waste into biodegradable and non-biodegradable material for its systematic collection and disposal, which holds key to better waste management. Information-education-communication activities were conducted in various schools and colleges to encourage students become active partners in the mission to create plastic-free environment,” she noted.
“We have drawn up plans to spearhead the sanitation awareness programmes in diverse forms under the aegis of our college principal G. Padmavathi and NSS Programme Officers K. Padmarani and P. Krishnaveni, she added.
