Mysore,30,sept,2022(www.justkannada.in): ‘Students of University of Mysore will now have an opportunity to contribute to the betterment of their University’s Campus’ shared Vice Chancellor Prof. Hemanth Kumar, he was attending a student project exhibition part of Mission Innovation Mysuru at University Career Hub yesterday. He spent quality time with the students understanding problem statements, reviewing prototypes, and evaluated the impact of these projects for the larger good of the Campus and was amazed at the way the hidden potential of student was being unleashed by this program
The University Career Hub, a wing of the University through its Mission Innovation Mysuru program, engaged about 100 students of the department of studeis in social work from Manasagangothri, Chamarajanagar, K R Nagara, and Mandya in Cohort2. These students spent 2 days every alternate week in a structured problem solving workshop from July 2022. Students worked on prototypes addressing problems under four specific themes Farmer problems, Campus green cover, Campus cleanliness, and Transportation woes
To enhance green cover of the campus students audited and mapped the existing green cover , worked on creating seedball and created butterfly parks.
To better campus cleanliness- students worked on identifying plastic waste zones, and to reduce the plastic footprint better collection and plastic recycling techniques were evaluated and prototypes implemented, they also worked on measures to improve washroom hygiene.
To resolve the issue of buses not stopping at designated spots- students worked closely with the officials of the public transport department, monitored if public bus stopped at designated points on routes connecting the different University’s Mandya P G Centre campuses to areas in and around where students live
Many students in the University come from families with farming backgrounds. Their passion for the farming community got them to understand and work on solutions addressing the issue of fair pricing, underground water pollution, making available good quality produce directly to the consumers .
Dr Jyothi H P , Chairman of the Dos in Social work said that the MIM program has been greatly supporting the department’s interest to get students to go deeper in solving real life problems and creating an impact to the society . She also shared that a clear focus on developing the 21st Century skills was a derived benefit of this program
