AICTE honours SRM with Swachhta Ranking award
   Date :08-Dec-2019

AICTE honours SRM with Sw
 
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SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Kattankulathur, won the annual ‘Swachhta Ranking Award’, under the Residential University category, at the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). SRMIST won this recognition at the third edition of Swachhata Ranking Award event which was held on December 3, 2019 at AICTE headquarter in New Delhi. The awards were received by Registrar of SRMIST Dr N Sethuraman, Dean - IQAC (Internal Quality Assurance Cell), Prof G Augustine Maniraj Pandian and Deputy Registrar of Delhi-NCR Campus Dr S Viswanathan. The awards were presented by Secretary, Department of Higher Education, R Subrahmanyam.
 
SRMIST won the third place among AICTE universities in the ‘Clean & Smart Campus Awards’, a campus first step towards sustainability. SRMIST also won the first place nationwide for their contribution in ‘One Student One Tree’ initiative. The objective of Swachhta Ranking Award is to get the attention of students, faculty, and institutions towards the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan and help them realise how smartly they can reduce the consumption or exploitation of natural resources such as paper, water, energy by the deployment of digital technology.
 
The ‘Clean and Smart Campus’ award aims to seek engagement with all stakeholders, primarily the student community to draw their attention towards immense scope and potential that the Technology offers for abstract objectives such as cleanliness, sustainability, environment etc. Under the ‘One Student One Tree’ initiative, nearly one lakh saplings are being planted in 26 villages near Kattankulathur and Kundrathur Panchayath. This was done by students from NSS, NCC, ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’, ‘Swachhata hi Seva’ and student chapter for engineers association. SRMIST won these awards beating over 6,900 institutions that participated in the ranking exercise under various parameters of hygiene like student-toilet ration, hostel hygiene, hostel kitchen hygiene, water conservation measures, and administrative responsibility.