Project Nidaan

Chairperson: Prof. Poonam Kumria

Co-ordinator: Prof. Anindita Roy Saha

Indraprastha College for Women has a large campus that comprises of academic area, sports area, hostels for students and residential area for teachers and non-teaching staff. It is an archetype of a self-sufficient social community with self-sustaining practices. Project Nidaan, the solid waste management program for campus is an initiative on campus that is visualized as an all-inclusive and participatory project for the entire college community. All members of the community are stakeholders and thus are perceived as contributors to the overall action plan. The ultimate aim of the project is to make a waste-neutral campus. Since the major part of waste management is associated with environmental behavior of people, the project aims to follow the fundamental approach of sensitization and awareness generation. 

The College is running the project through active participation of all members of the College community. It functions through the principle of participative waste management with the target that no waste will leave the campus. While some forms of waste will be recycled inhouse, some others will be channelized through partner organizations. Actions will establish sustainable practices for waste collection, segregation at source and scientific disposal with a commitment to work towards the stated Sustainable Development Goals. It will further extend to community outreach and fulfill an institutional social responsibility.

Click here to download the proposal of Project Nidaan.

Click here to download the document 'Towards Making a Waste Neutral College Campus (2017)'