National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT-C) Director Prasad Krishna has exhorted the student community to take up the ‘Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar’ (Clean Coast - Safe Sea) project to transform coasts in the State into garbage-free zones. He was inaugurating a one-day workshop on the NIT-C campus here on Wednesday.
Despite Kerala having the highest literacy rate and progress in universal educational standards, Prof. Krishna lamented that the State’s streets and other public spaces were literally piled up with garbage.
B.K. Tyagi, scientist, Vigyan Prasar, and C.R. Sreeraj, marine ecologist, interacted with students from various educational institutions in the district. M.K. Ravi Varma, head, Department of Physics, NIT-C; P. Predeep, professor of physics, NIT-C; Sandeep Barua, scientist, Vigyan Prasar; A. Sujith, professor of chemistry, NIT-C; Abdul Nasar, District Institute of Education and Training-DIET, and Biju Dharmapalan, Vigyan Prasar, spoke.
