The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), WB organized a special function to celebrate World Environment Day on the 4th of June, 2019 at its Haringhata Campus in Simhat, Nadia. As the campus was closed the next day due to Id-Ul-Zoha, the celebrations were one day in advance. The objective was to highlight the importance of technology in protecting the environment. 

The lamp lighting ceremony

The lighting of the lamp by the Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor.,

 The Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor of the University Prof. Dr. Saikat Maitra initiated the programme by planting a tree in the garden adjacent to the Bio-Technology Building. Other officials of the University also took part in it.

After that Prof. Maitra inaugurated the main programme in the midst of a lamp lighting ceremony at the auditorium of the University. 

Prof. Maitra watering a tree after planting it.

In this occasion Prof. Maitra and others highlighted the recent research activities of the University centering around environmental protection. The most important research activity in this field is is on re-use of water and plastic. The Univeresity's success in this area was highlighted in the programme. 

MAKAUT had arranged for a photography competition among the students to make them aware of the different aspects of environment pollution. The results of the competition were announced on this occasion.

At the same time prizes were distributed to nine gardeners of the University for their enormous contribution towards decorating the new Haringhata campus by enhancing its greenery.

Prof. Maitra giving away prizes to a gardener.

The University has also gifted two special dustbins to the Haringhata Municipality. A dustbin is also allotted to  collect used plastic bottles from the University campus. 

In a nutshell, MAKAUT wants to take a leading role towards environment protection and stresses on the use of modern technology towards creating a pollution free neighborhood.

Prof. Subhabrata Roychowdhury giving away prizes to the winner of the photography competition Mainak Ghosh.

World Environment Day 2019 was celebrated by the people all across the world on the 5th of June, Wednesday. The theme was “Beat Air Pollution”. It was actually a call for action to stop air pollution which has become a global crisis now.  The theme was chosen by China who was the host for World Environment Day 2019. The day was also observed on various social media platforms with the hashtag #BeatAirPollution and #WorldEnvironmentDay. 

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) organized various awareness campaigns across the globe to protect the environment and encourage the people worldwide to contribute their bit in saving our environment and our planet. MAKAUT is proud to be a part of this initiative across the globe.