Plastic-Free Berhampur: Reverse Vending Machine Installed At Old Bus Stand

 In order to achieve a plastic-free Berhampur and in to create an awareness initiative, a Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) has been installed at the Old Bus Stand in Berhampur by the local civic body in collaboration with HDFC Bank.

Plastic has become a major pollutant to the environment. It has been seen that Plastic products contributed to the blockage of the drainage system and ecosystem.

As part of Swacha Bharat Abhiyan to make Berhampur plastic-free, Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) started the Plastic Free programe collaborating with HDFC Bank Parivartan.

HDFC BANK in turn has roped in the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) as implementing partner for this Plastic Free Program.

Citizens will drop off their plastic, and polythene and get a discount coupon which can be used at Local Restaurants and Swiggy/ Zomato for food. BeMC has provided the space for the installation of the RVM which will be maintained by the CEE.

The inauguration was attended by BeMC Mayor Sanghmitra Dalai as Chief Guest Sanghmitra Dalai, BeMC Commissioner Siddeshwar Baliram Bondar, and Berhampur Sub-Collector Keerthi Vasan V.

Senior Bank official Nrusingha Mishra and Mr. Sodhi from CEE were also present during the event.

Pimpri Chinchwad municipal official & principals visit iconic scrap sculpture park in ITI Berhampur

 Ulhas Jagtap, Additional Commissioner of Maharashtra’s Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) near Pune, along with Shashikant Patil, Principal PCMC ITI Morwadi, PCMC ITI (Girls) Kasarwadi and other three officers from ITIs of Pune, visited ITI Berhampur campus on Saturday. The aim of their visit was to explore good skill training practices of ITI, Berhampur particularly  ‘Waste to Weath’ project, in which students make useful products from scrap. The guests visited the Scrap Sculpture Park at ITI Campus and other scrap sculptures mounted in Berhampur town by ITI Berhampur.

They appreciated the skills of ITI students and commended their role in waste management. Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has a proposal to set up a scrap park in Pimpri Chinchwad municipal area, Jagtap said. 

The visitors took particular notice of the success stories of female ITI students of Berhampur, who plan to become entrepreneurs now. The guests distributed offer letters to 22 girls who have been selected by TVS group for recruitment. These girls will join their jobs in September this year after their final AITT exam is over.

Additional Commissioner Jagtap said, he would be sending students and instructors from Pimpri Chinchwad to ITI Berhampur for a one-week program to gain hands-on skills in manufacturing sculptures from scrap.

More than 600 schools in Odisha to adopt ITI Berhampur's 'Waste to Wealth' model

 

Headmasters from 622 schools from 22 blocks of Ganjam district in Odisha today (June 22) decided to adopt ITI Berhampur’s ‘Waste to Wealth’ model by training students to convert scraps into sculptures and models. At a workshop attended by the school heads, organized by ITI Berhampur, it was decided that students from these schools will visit the ITI Berhampur campus in batches to learn the skills of converting waste and scrap into wealth. This will be part of the 5T (teamwork, technology, transparency, transformation and time limit) action plan of the Odisha government prepared for the education department. 

The livewire behind this ‘Waste to Wealth’ innovative concept is Dr. Rajat Kumar Panigrahy, Director, ITT, Berhampur, known as the “Scrap Man of Odisha”, who explained to the school headmasters how waste and scrap can be converted into beautiful models and sculptures by school students. He pointed out how converting waste and scrap into wealth can improve environment. 

Dr Panigrahy urged the school heads to motivate girl students to adopt skills that would help them to join technical education under the ‘Sudakhya’ scheme initiated by the Odisha government. The Sudakhya scheme aims at generating self-employment opportunities for girls and women by enrolling them in government it is.

Berhampur Municipal Corporation commissioner Sri J. Sonal, who attended the workshop, appreciated the innovative skills of ITI students in converting scrap into wealth. "I am highly delighted to see the sofas on which we are sitting on the dais. This is a commendable attitude of ITI students who converted waste into usable products," he said. 

V. Keerthi Vasan, IAS, project director of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) appreciated the initiative of ITI director in promoting ‘Waste to Wealth’ skills among youths. He said it was a big initiative by inviting students from more than 600 schools to come to the ITI campus to learn these skills. 

Binita Senapati, district education officer, Ganjam, requested all school heads to promote technical education skills among their students, and organize visits to the ITI campus for adopting ‘Waste to Wealth’ concept.

Later, the students and staff of ITI took all the school heads around the campus and showed them various workshops, e-lab, scrap pard, Covid Innovation Centre and Scrap Museum.

Bangladeshi Cricketer Sanjida Akter Starts Training In #Berhampur

 

Berhampur: Bangladeshi cricketer Sanjida Akter Meghla has started training at the Berhampur Physical Academy in Berhampur of Ganjam district to be fit for the upcoming Asia Cup to be held in August-September this year.

Meghla has made a name for herself by participating in various international matches. She has played cricket with various countries like India, Pakistan, Kenya, and South Africa. She is now 64 kg and was worried about her fitness ahead of the Asia Cup.

She came to know about Berhampur Physical Academy through YouTube. The academy has been attracting young men and women who are eager on staying fit or are aspiring for the defense services. Meghla has joined the Physical Academy to lose weight.

The founder of the academy, Ex-Havildar Simanchal Barik, has been working hard to achieve the goal of his students. Meghla is being taught fitness tips both in the morning and in the evening. He is optimistic that she will lose 7 to 8 kg in just 15 days.

It is a matter of pride that an international player from another country came to Berhampur to train at the academy, said Barik. Other students at the academy, who are from different states of the country, are also learning from Meghla, especially after the training is over.

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