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7.1.7 – Initiatives taken by the institution to make the campus eco-friendly (at least five)
o Recycling of paper and moving to paperless operation system by endorsing e-
Governance system. o Moving to paperless examination system saving trees. o
Upcycling of daily newspaper through manufacture and distribution of
ecofriendly plantable-seed pens to reduce plastic waste while promoting tree
plantation o Declaring campus area as non-honking zones with limited use of
vehicles on-campus. o Maintaining the campus as no-smoking zone. o
Sensitization and implementation efforts to maintain plastic-free campus. o
Regular effort to nurture and maintain green campus with dense plantations
preferably using organic farming practices. o Indigenously developed effluent
treatment plants. o Conduction of lectures/sessions/workshops/STTPs on
environment awareness and climate change for university fraternity. o Regular
maintenance of natural lake within the campus, also preserving the aquatic
life. o Growth and nurture of diverse flora including medicinal plants and
endangered species. o Efforts towards conservation of house sparrows by
building nests through activities undertaken by students’ groups. o Harmonium
existence of locally abundant species of butterflies, birds, monkeys etc. o
Display of information boards in campus making all inhabitants aware of
biodiversity of campus. o Compulsory course of Environment Sciences to all the
students of under graduate programmes. o Green Audit mechanism to monitor
carbon foot print. o Recognition as Schedule I Environment Auditor by Gujarat
Pollution Control Board (GPCB), Gandhinagar. o MoU with CEE (Centre of
Environmental Education). o Adoption of Plastic Tide Turner challenge of UN by
students. o NABL accredited Environmental Engineering Lab at Civil Engineering
Department. o Establishment of Hydroclimatology research lab with DST funding.
o Solid waste incineration plant commissioned for Waste management.

7.2 – Best Practices
7.2.1 – Describe at least two institutional best practices

BEST PRACTICE-1) 1) Title of the Practice: Promoting Creativity, Problem
solving and Innovation as a crucial component of academic structure 2)
Objectives: • To develop skills of Creativity, Problem Solving and Innovation
in the learners • To raise and channelize the inherent creative potential in an
individual beyond self-initiative • To create awareness about the need for
creative thinking and visualization in deriving solutions to contemporary real-
life issues 3) The Context: A formal education at colleges and universities is
one of the many ways to learn, that students select for themselves. However, at
this juncture while the learning is driven significantly by the overload of
information from the Internet, one requires to learn to thinking creatively to
find solutions to personal and professional problems. Especially considering
the role of the students in shaping the future of the nation, it was realized
that for problems that concern India, tailor-made solutions that apply abroad
may be inappropriate because of significant differences in the socioeconomic
structure, geographical and cultural constraints as well as availability of
resources. Instead, for which the attitude and aptitude to think creatively
needs to be developed in the younger minds. The whole effort is based on the
occurrence of four inherent abilities in every individual namely Memory,
Understanding, Thinking and Imagining and that all these four together
contribute towards Creativity, Problem Solving and Innovation. The whole idea
was to transform the memory and understanding-driven learning to imagination-
driven learning and its application. 4) The Practice: • The course content has
been meticulously designed by internationally acclaimed R D expert Dr Anil