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GREEN CAMPUS INITIATIVE

Overview

A Green Campus is a place where environmental friendly practices and education combine to promote sustainable and eco-friendly practices in the campus. The green campus concept offers an institution the opportunity to take the lead in redefining its environmental culture.
The Green campus initiative was started in 2011 in College of Engineering Thalassery , which is affiliated in Bhoo Mithra Sena Club in 12/5/2015, with the financial support of the Directorate of Environment and Climate Change, Government of Kerala with code no. 283/KNR/22I14.
Environmental education has become an inevitable tool in creating awareness on imperatives of environmental sustainability. Bhoomitra Sena Club an idea conceived by Directorate of Environment & Climate Change under Department of Environment and Climate Change serves this purpose. Agencies like Kerala State Pollution Control Board, Kerala State Biodiversity Board and Kerala Suchitwa Mission extend support to this programme.. The club organizes Seminars, Debates, Lectures and talks on environmental issues. It also arranges visits to Wildlife Park, environmentally degrading areas etc. Other activities include cleaning and maintaining the polluted or environmentally degraded sites, planting and maintaining trees in the campus. The students also organize awareness camps to promote waste management, personal hygiene and a sustainable life style.

Activities conducted

  1. Photo exhibition-Topic –Birds in the campus- 15th February 2015
  2. Nature camp at Madayippara- 14th August 2015 
  3. Green Campus calendar for the year 2016- 15th December 2015
  4. Two day camp at college campus and Kottiyoor Wildlife sanctuary in association with Forest department- 30 and 31 January, 2016 
  5. Two day camp at college campus- 23th and 24th January, 2016 
  6. Environment Day- 5 th June ,2016 
  7. Tholpetti Nature Camp in association with Forest department  - 30thSeptember to 2nd October ,2016
  8. International year of soil-19th,November 2016 
  9. 3 day Nature Camp at Aralam in association with Forest department -23rd to 25th December 2016 
  10. Photo gallery : Plants in the campus    

    1. Flowers in the campus

    2. Birds in the campus

  11. Monsoon camp@ college campus- 18 th and 19th July 2017
  12. Puthuchuvadinoru thanal padhathi(All first year student planted one tree and they have to take care of their tree for the entire 4 years) in association with Forest depart ment -4th August 2017
  13. Onasammanam(cashew nut tree) to all staff members in association with Agricultural departmentand plantation of cashew nut tree in the campus- 29th and 30th August 2017
  14. 2 day nature camp @ Aralam in association with Forest department- 27th and 28th October 2017
  15. ‘Vanayathra- journey through jungle’ at Kannavam forest in association with social forestry wing on 18th Nov.2017
  16. ‘3 Day Grama sahavasa camp’- interaction with rural people 22-25 december 2017
  17. Lahari muktha gramam campaign conducted in Eranholi grama panchayath 4th and 5th Jan. 2018
  18. Short film release 16th Feb. 2018
  19. One staff one tree programme inauguration 26th July 2018

Tree list in the campus

       

Sl. No

Local Name

Botanical name

Family

1

ഏഴിലംപാല

Alstonia scholaris

Apocynaceae

2

ചാരക്കൊന്ന

Peltophorum pterocarpum

Fabaceae

3

പൊന്‍ ചെമ്പകം

Magnolia champaca

Magnoliaceae

4

താന്നി

Terminalia bellerica

Combretaceae

5

മൈലാഞ്ചി

Lawsonia inermis

Lythraceae

6

സപ്പോട്ട

Manilkara zapota

Sapotaceae

7

കല്ലരയാല്‍

Ficus arnottiana

Moraceae

8

മാവ്

Mangifera indica

Ancardiaceae

9

വേങ്ങ

Pterocarpus marsupium

Fabaceae

10

നെല്ലി

Phyllanthus emblica

Euphor biaceae

11

പ്ലാവ്

Artocarpus heterophyllus

Moraceae

12

ചുവന്നമന്ദാരം

Bauhinia purpurea

Fabaceae

13

കുമിഴ്

Gmelina arborea

Verbenaceae

14

തണ്ണീര്‍ കൈമരം

Spathodea campanulata

Bignoniaceae

15

അരിനെല്ലി

Phyllanthus acidus

Euphor biaceae

16

കണിക്കൊന്ന

Cassia fistula

Fabaceae

17

ഡിവിഡിവി

Caesalpinia coriaria

Fabaceae

18

പൂമരം

Delonix regia

Fabaceae

19

മുള്ളന്‍ കയനി

Briedelia retusa

Euphor biaceae

20

ഉങ്ങ്

Pongamia pinnata

Fabaceae

21

പേര

Psidium guajava

Myrtaceae

22

ഞാവല്‍

Syzygium cumini

Myrtaceae

23

അരയാല്‍

Ficus religiosa

Moraceae

24

മുള്ലാത്ത

Annona muricata

Annonaceae

25

മണിമരുത്

Lagerstroemia speciosa

Lythraceae

26

മഞ്ചാടി

Adenanthera pavonina

Fabaceae

27

മഴമരം

Albizzia saman

Fabaceae

28

ഇപ്പിലിപ്പില്‍ (സുബാബുള്‍)

Leucaena leucocephala

Fabaceae

29

ആമത്താളി

Trema orientalis

Ulmaceae

30

ഉപ്പൂത്തി (ഉപ്പില)

Macaranga peltata

Euphorbiaceae

31

മുള്ളിലവ്

Bombax ceiba

Bombacaceae

32

അക്കേഷ്യ

Acacia auriculiformis

Fabaceae

33

ശീമക്കൊന്ന

Gliricidia sepium

Fabaceae

34

കശുമാവ്

Anacardium occidentale

Anacardiaceae

35

പുല്ലാനി

Calycopteris floribunda

Combretaceae

36

ചേല

Ficus tsjahela

Moraceae

37

അത്തി

Ficus auriculata

Moraceae

38

കാറ്റാടി

Casuarina equisetifolia

Casuarinaceae

39

വന്കണ

Carallia brachiata

Rhizophoraceae

40

മുളക്നാറി

Alseodaphne semecarpifolia

Lauraceae

41

കലയം

Lannea coromandelica

Anacardiaceae

42

ചാമ്പ

Syzygium aqueum

Myrtaceae

43

സ്വര്‍ണ്ണപത്രി

Chrysophyllum cainito

Sapotaceae

44

മഹാഗണി

Sweitenia macrophylla

Meliaceae

45

തേക്ക്

Tectona grandis

Verbenaceae

46

ബദാം

Terminalia catappa

Combretaceae

47

ആര്യവേപ്പ്

Azadiracta indica

Meliaceae

48

പുളി (വാളമ്പുളി)

Tamarindus indica

Fabaceae

49

പലകപ്പയ്യാനി

Paganelia longifolia

Bignoniaceae

50

കാട്ടുമുല്ല

Jasminum malabaricum

oleaceae

51

അമ്പഴം

Spondias pinnata

Anacardiaceae

52

എടല

Olea dioica

Oleaceae