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SRMIST ORHANISES ‘GATEWAY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS – LEADERSHIP DEMAND AND SRMIST SOCIAL RESPONBILITY’
“Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development”, build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals, cover
social and economic development issues including poverty, hunger, health,
education, global warming, gender equality, water, sanitation, energy,
urbanization, environment, and social justice, while including new areas such
as climate change, economic inequality, innovation, sustainable consumption,
peace, and justice, among other priorities. Some of the ambitious schemes and
programmes of the Government of India are designed to achieve these SDGs. One
such Central Government scheme is Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, a flagship programme
under Ministry of Human Resource Development aimed at transforming Rural India.
At SRM
Institute of Science Technology, the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan cell, Center for
Environmental Nuclear Research and School of Public Health jointly organised a Seminar
and Poster presentation “Gateway to Sustainable Development Goals – Leadership
Demand and SRMIST Social Responsibility” on 29th March 2019 at Dr.
Vikhram Sarabhai hall, 4th floor University Building. Dr. Rajan
Patil, Associate Professor, School of Public Health delivered the welcome
address.
The
event was graced by honourable Vice Chancellor, Dr. Sandeep Sancheti. In his
inaugural address, he emphasised on the need for an open elective course to
educate students on the importance of SDGs. In his opinion, of the 17 goals, he
stressed on the importance of ‘Goal 4 Quality Education’ which acts as an
overarching goal and is the ‘seed’ to achieving the other interconnected goals.
He encouraged students to come up with innovative ideas and become experts in
knowing the people and local conditions well, which is the key to social
interventions. He concluded his speech appreciating the multi-faculty and
multi-disciplinary coordination of the Departments involved.
The
chief guest was Ms. Rajalakshmi Srinivasan, Product Manager, ZOHO Estancia IT
Park Ltd. Having worked with Zoho for 19 years, she shared some of their best
practices which aligns with the objectives of SDGs and other CSR activities
undertaken towards community and rural development.
Prof. Kantha Deivi
Arunachalam, Dean, Center for Environmental Nuclear Research presented SRMIST’s
ranking in UI Green Metric securing 3rd in Deemed to be University (India level), 9th
ranking out of 25 Indian Universities participations and 392th ranking out of
719 Institutes worldwide.
Dr. Padma
Venkat, Dean School of Public Health enlightened the audience about the
importance of Sustainable Health.
Dr.V.Thirumurugan, Associate Director (Campus
Life) and UBA Coordinator and Ms.Irene Sambath, UBA Project Associate presented
the updates of activities at UBA adopted villages.
The 1st year
students from Master in Public Health presented on SDGs and Planetary Health.
The Chief Guest, Ms.
Rajalakshmi and Mr. Udhay Kumar Thiyagarajan from DXC Technology Solution
Architec were the judges for the competitions
Dr. T.M. Thiyagarajan, Dean from Agricultural Sciences gave prizes for best
three posters and oral presentations.
Dr. Rajan Patil, Associate Professor, SPH
proposed the vote of thanks.
Moments of the day
