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PRSU to train over 1,200 students as solar ambassadors under GGSY
PRSU to train over 1,200 students as solar ambassadors under GGSY
Special Correspondent :
Raipur,
All students are registered at PRSU for the Solar Lamp Workshop which will be conducted in four phases on October 2, 5, 10 and 12
More than 1,200 students are registered at PRSU for the Solar Lamp Workshop where they will be prepared as solar ambassadors. The workshop will be conducted in four phases on October 2, 5,10 and 12 to impart training to all students. Institute of Renewable Energy Technology & Management (IRETM) and SoS in Electronics & Photonics, Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (PRSU), Raipur are workshop associates to an endeavour of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in sensitisation of over 1 million students towards adverse effects of climate change and making them future propagators of renewable energy, creating Global Student Solar Ambassadors for Gandhi Global Solar Yatra.
The Gandhi Global Solar Yatra (GGSY) is planned to promote self-sufficiency in energy for sustainability by providing complete, cost-effective, reliable, and sustainable solar energy access while protecting the environment, creating livelihoods and empowering locals. The workshop coordinator Professor Sanjay Tiwari, Head, SoS in Electronics & Photonics, said the Student Solar Ambassador Programme, the seed concept of the GGSY, aimed to sensitise the young (future) generations who will be bearing the maximum burden of climate change.
Their sensitisation and participation as solar ambassadors in climate mitigation efforts will be important. Here at PRSU a workshop to train students and sensitise them towards solar energy will be organised on October 2, commemorating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Dr Tiwari said during the workshop key issues such as adverse effects of climate change, clean energy access, reducing carbon footprint, renewable energy technologies, localization of energy for sustainability and energy-related issues will be discussed along with demonstration on the Solar Study Lamp assembly by participants. PRSU Vice Chancellor Professor Keshari Lal Verma said Gandhijis philosophy “Not mass production but production by the masses is required” is relevant for the welfare of the country and this is right time to work on ‘Energy Swaraj,’ on the lines of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of ‘Gram Swaraj’. Energy Swaraj is generation of energy by the communities for their consumption and needs.
This will be a mega – global event, which will be taking place in over 100 countries. School students shall assemble solar lamps in Pt Ravishankar Shukla University campus on October 2. The participating students will receive a certificate from. Prof Chetan Singh Solanki, who teaches at IIT Bombay and is the founder of Gandhi Global Solar Yatra (GGSY), was inspired by Gandhian teachings of local self-sufficiency and sustainability to work on Energy Swaraj. “We need to demystify solar energy,” says Prof Solanki, who aims to convince one lakh families to surrender their electrical connections and go off the grid on October 2, Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary. On the same day, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, he will help 10,000 students make solar study lamps. The solar man of India, Prof Solanki’s trigger was a 2015 report about how most solar street lights in India did not work.
