Swacchtata Hi Seva 2019 awareness campaign on plastic free environment and mobilized at ICAR-NBAIR from 11.9.19 to 2.10.19. The campaign started with an Oath taking ceremony by all staff of ICAR_NBAIR. Programs like poem writing and oral speech competitions were arranged, on plastic waste management. On01/10/2019 a special gust lecture was arranged on the topic, “Gandhian Principle and How to Implement SwachhBharath in Our Work Place”. The chief guest was Mr. M. Santhosh Kumar, Asst. Director, Dept. of Solar Energy, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural Energy & Development. He elaborated about the importance of segregation of bio-degradable waste and non-biodegradable waste like plastics. He explained about the health hazardous and environmental pollution because of the usage of plastics in our daily life and he mentioned how we can avoid plastics. He also suggested to go for recycling of waste at the office as well as at home.
