Campaign for environment awareness in colleges
MUMBAI: An infrastructure finance company is running an environment and sustainability awareness campaign titled 'In our hands' in more than 300 colleges in 15 cities. It plans to connect about a million youth in the next three years.
'In our hands' is an initiative to create awareness about the current social, infrastructural and environmental challenges and actively explore opportunities to address them. This year the theme of 'In our hands' is environment and sustainability. It will cover three major environment issues-carbon foot print, land and water. The campaign will engage youth across the country to come forward and speak their mind on these pressing environmental issues through digital and other mediums of communication. The focus of is to provide a channel that will help bring new information to youth.
'In our hands' is an initiative to create awareness about the current social, infrastructural and environmental challenges and actively explore opportunities to address them. This year the theme of 'In our hands' is environment and sustainability. It will cover three major environment issues-carbon foot print, land and water. The campaign will engage youth across the country to come forward and speak their mind on these pressing environmental issues through digital and other mediums of communication. The focus of is to provide a channel that will help bring new information to youth.
The campaign will feature several inter-collegiate competitions and activities including student city journalist, debates, panel discussions, documentary making, quizzes, online essay competitions, and blogging contests photography contests, surveys, online discussions, etc around the theme of Environment & Sustainability. The first edition on this initiative was held only in Mumbai, whereas the second was held in six cities and this (third) year campaign is going to 15 cities covering more than 300 colleges. The campaign aims to create an impact through building awareness and bringing the youth together to encourage them to take positive steps to bring about change. The All India winners will participate in the panel discussion at the launch of IDFC - India Infrastructure's (the organizers) report in presence of bureaucrats, political and business leaders in