Eco club Of the College, under the umbrella of Departments of Botany and Zoology was sponsored by Dept. of Environment GNCT, Delhi in 2013. It has been annually conducting various activities for the students of the College such as film screening, talks by eminent speakers and competitions, all related to environmental issues.
This year too a film, Inconvenient Truth was screened in the College in the month of September. Our students, along with the convenor of Eco Club, Dr.Vibha Narang attended the conclave on circular economy on plastic waste and livelihood opportunities organised by Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Smriti Manch at convention Centre, New Delhi on 25 September 2019 wherein eminent speakers gave their views on use of recycled plastic in making various products and to ban use of single use plastic by 2022. A lecture was organised in the month of March 2020 on Climate Change and Delhi Pollution by Dr. Sumit Sharma, Director, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi. Various competitions were also organised for students wherein students from various courses participated actively and were awarded cash prizes and certificates for the same.
The Eco Club of the college organised a film screening show in the month of September 2017 to mark the World Ozone day .A film “Inconvenient Truth”wasscreened.The film is based on causes and effects of Global Warming.It featured the Nobel prize winner Al Gore, who in this explained the process. Students enjoyed the film.
Later ,January ,2018 the club organised a talk by Mr.Sabyasachi a film maker at CMS Vatavaran ,New Delhi an expert in the field of making films on environmental issues.Our students interacted with the speaker and were enthusiastic about the issues related to environment.Competitions like Best out of waste,poster making and flower arrangement were also organised for the students.A number of students participated in these competitions and were given certificates and cash prizes for the same .We thank DOE,GNCT ,Delhi for sponsoring all these events under our Eco Club .We also thank our Principal for his continuous motivation.
Dr. Vibha Narang
Eco Club Convenor