List of suggested activities for BMCs (only tentative)
- Organize Seminars, debates, lectures and popular talks on environmental issues in the College/ Schools and surrounding areas.
- Field visits to local environmentally important sites including polluted and degraded sites, wild life parks, coastal areas, etc.
- Organize awareness camps to propagate waste minimization, personal hygiene habits and sustainable life styles.
- Observance of environmentally significant days: (It is mandatory for BMCs to observe at least two of the following days).
- World Wetland day – 2 nd February
- World Forestry day – 21st March
- World Water day – 22nd March
- World Meteorological day – 23rd March
- World Earth day – 22nd April 6. International Bio Diversity day – 22nd May
- World Environment Day – 5 th June
- World Ocean Day – 8 th June
- World Ozone Day – 16th September
- National Pollution Prevention Day – 2 nd December
- Mobilize awareness against environmentally unsound practices like garbage disposal in unauthorized places, unsafe disposal of hospital wastes, etc.
- Actions based activities like tree plantation, cleanliness drives within and outside the campus, maintain waste management units, construct water harvesting structures, practice recycling etc.
- Prepare inventories of polluting sources; take mitigation measures if possible, and if not, forward it to enforcement agencies.
- Monitor the water quality of water bodies in and around the campus, including drinking water sources and ascertains its potability and suitability of use. The concerned district office of KSPCB will assist in water quality testing etc.
- Curriculum related assignments on local environmental issues including pollution monitoring, biodiversity surveys, Waste management, documentation of indigenous traditional knowledge etc
- Prepare locally relevant resource materials.