World Water Day

“Prakriti” ECO club unit of Shri MadhwaVadiraja Institute of Technology & Management, Bantakal, Udupi and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Regional Office, Udupi-Manipal, has jointly celebrated World Water Day on Saturday, 22^nd March 2014. Sri. Ratnakumar, Secretary, SSVME Trust, Udupi and Sri. Jayaprakash S Nayak, Senior scientist of KSPCB, Mangalore was the guests of honour.

After the welcome, Sri. Jayaprakash Nayak has given the World Water Day message through his talk and presentation along with video display on Rain water harvesting. Then, the main speaker of the day Dr. H. N. Udayashankar, professor, Civil Engg. Department, MIT Manipal has briefly touched the various components of the water resource and on theme of the year “WATER and ENERGY”. The organizers arranged quizzes for the audience on water with attractive prizes.

The objective of the celebration was to create awareness among the students, faculty and the others on the important natural resource ‘THE WATER’. Dr. Radhakrishna S Aithal, principal of the college, Dr. A. Ganesha Prof. & Dean (Academics), HODs, members of both ISTE faculty & student chapters were present for the programme. The programme was well appreciated by the audience.