Hi KIIT
ians, very best wishes for a grand success of KIIT FEST 2016. KIIT FEST not
only should set the standards of “young organization” to show case the
inherent talent of student community of India; but, it must also look at
transforming the entire locality of “C.Spur” as the KIIT
TOWNSHIP just like its counterparts like OXFORD in Britain and HARVARD in
Boston in USA. While, I wish KIITians during the fest must enjoy to the full
while displaying their Engineering, Management and Leadership Skills and other
entertainment domains; they should and must also think about how to deploy
their “Knowledge & Skills” for the benefit of society by solving real
problems of the day. Therefore, I would urge KIITians to think about “ADOPTING”
the Chandrashekharpur residential area in their out reach program so as to
Transform the Area into a Global Standard “KIIT UNIVERSITY TOWNSHIP”.
I would
rather plead with the 25000 student’s community of KIIT to take leadership of
their locality and identify the problems, find solution, generate resources and
implement their plans to Transform the area of Chandrashekharpur as no one
would have expected, ever. The Founder of KIIT and KIIS has been admired
Globally and brought laurels for the country. Now, it is about time the
Students of KIIT to show case if they belong to the same “enterprising” DNA as their Founder Shri Achyuta
Samanta.
What KIITians could do for the locality?
While
taking the walk in the morning on the main road of KIIT, the stanching smell
from thriving business would greet you at first and garbage dump littered in
the area which is far cry from well architecture buildings of KIIT University . Why the young students should
suffer such an environment; instead of taking the challenge and finding solution
which will help them to hone their knowledge & skills and validate their
readiness for taking bigger responsibility in life- at the work place and
Family. The outcome of such effort of KIIT students would also project a “can
do” image with the recruiters.
- First is awareness
Can 25,000 students take an initiative to create awareness
among people?—residences and business establishments to maintain cleanliness
and hygiene for our own health and advancement?
When you direct your mind to solve a
big problem; then, your mind would come up with new Ideas and you will find
source of new knowledge & skill and when you do this in a group, you shall
create a revolution. In India we do not have a tradition or
precedent among student community to “Identify Problems” and Research for
Solutions in recent times. Therefore, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Face Book and
Twitter are all Western Inventions and we are only consumers of Global products
and services. Shall we change this? KIITians will decide. In this project of
creating awareness about cleanliness, health & hygiene so many KIIT Schools
competency could be tested. Like Communication, Content generations, Volunteers
recruitment and training—spanning Engineering, Medical, Management, Fine Art
and others.
- Second is to maintain
cleanliness in the locality
Charity
begins at home and therefore students have to first maintain the cleanliness of
their hostel room and wash area and also share “Gyan” to residents and
business establishments. Here, students would face challenges from the Old
Habit of people and Public authorities like BMC and BDA. You have to find new
methods and tools to persuade the Civic Authorities to do their job 100%
perfectly, Campaign to convince residents to convert their Organic Wastes into
Compost for use in the garden as manure---and, that would reduce the quantum of
Solid Waste by 50% and therefore less work for our Bhubaneswar Municipal
Corporation which has become complacent after becoming Numero Uno in the SMART
City competition.
3. Water Conservation
“Water is life and life is water” KIITians
should also consider doing advocacy on water conservation in their operational
area of C.S.Pur. That should include among other things, persuade
people/residents/business/apartment complexes to go for Rain Water Harvesting
System that would over a period of time could raise water table and support
better quality green cover. KIITians with their engineering skills could design
and execute Rain Water Harvesting Structure for Residents and Apartment
Complexes at a reasonable cost, the surplus generated out of such activities
would help the student’s body to spread their wings in its outreach program.
The objective here should be to convert the entire area Rain Water harvesting
Compliant.
4. Green Cover
KiiTians
could also consider improving the green cover in the locality. They could raise
volunteers and go for massive plantation in the locality so much so that Bird
species would like to inhabit the place and create a conducive environment with
their chirping sounds for education and research in the KIIT TOWNSHIP .
5. Solar Energy
Kiitians
also could choose to promote Solar Energy by persuading people to use Roof Top
Solar Panels for their captive energy needs. That should give an opportunity to
KIIT Engineering students to go for R&D to develop world class photovoltaic
cells to offer cost effective solution to people in the area and to become the
role model all over the country.
Friends, if
you like this proposal please share this with the KIITians in the beginning and
end of your KIIT FEST to see their response. I wish to see an Arch at Kalinga Hospital Square that reads “Welcome to KIIT
UNIVESITY TOWSHIP”.
Cheers.
Bikash
Chudhury
Socio-Economic-Political Activist