Bhoomithrasena Club

Bhoomithrasena Club

(BMC-248/EKM/21/13)

For strengthening the environmental commitment of students at college level in the State, Directorate of Environment & Climate Change (DoECC) launched the ‘Bhoo Mithra Sena’ (BMC) programme. Through this programme, it is intended to establish Bhoo Mithrasena Clubs (BMCs) in all districts through the colleges of the State. A unit of BMC is actively functioning at Sree Sankara College also, since 2014.

Objectives

• To encourage the students to appreciate environment and environmental issues of the locality
• To provide environmental education opportunities for students and involve them in addressing environmental issues of the locality.
• To utilize the enormous manpower available with students as conduits for awareness of the society
• To make students practice and advocate sustainable lifestyles
• To improve the overall environmental quality of the institution.

Activities

• Organize Seminars, debates, lectures and popular talks on environmental issues in the College/ Schools and surrounding areas.
• Field visits to local environmentally important sites including polluted and degraded sites, wild life parks, coastal areas, etc.
• Organize awareness camps to propagate waste minimization, personal hygiene habits and sustainable life styles.
• Observance of at least two of the following environmentally significant days.

1. World Wetland day – 2^nd February
2. World Forestry day – 21^st March
3. World Water day – 22^nd March
4. World Meteorological day – 23^rd March
5. World Earth day – 22^nd April
6. International Bio Diversity day – 22^nd May
7. World Environment Day – 5^th June
8. World Ocean Day – 8^th June
9. World Ozone Day – 16^th September
10. National Pollution Prevention Day – 2^nd December

• Mobilize awareness against environmentally unsound practices like garbage disposal in unauthorized places, unsafe disposal of hospital wastes, etc.

• Actions based activities like tree plantation, cleanliness drives within and outside the campus, maintain waste management units, construct water harvesting structures, practice recycling etc.
• Prepare inventories of polluting sources; take mitigation measures if possible, and if not, forward it to enforcement agencies.
• Monitor the water quality of water bodies in and around the campus, including drinking water  sources and ascertains its potability and suitability of use. The concerned district office of KSPCB will assist in water quality testing etc.
• Curriculum related assignments on local environmental issues including pollution monitoring, biodiversity surveys, Waste management, documentation of indigenous traditional knowledge etc.
• Prepare locally relevant resource materials.

Composition and role of State Level Environmental Awareness Evaluation Committee

• Secretary to Government, Environment Department – Chairman
• Director, Directorate of Environment & Climate Change – Member
• Director of Collegiate Education, Kerala – Member
• Director of Higher Secondary Education, Kerala – Member
• Member Secretary, Kerala State Biodiversity Board – Member
• Member Secretary, Kerala State Pollution Control Board – Member
• Environment Programme Manager, Directorate of Environment & Climate Change – Convener

Composition of BMC at Sree Sankara College, Kalady

Activity Reports

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

2021-22

2022-23