Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore

Mangalore, Oct 3: 'World Green Building Week' was celebrated at Bearys Institute of Technology (BIT), Knowledge Campus, here recently.

In connection with celebrations of World Green Building Week, BITians took pride in announcing that they stay in unique sustainable green architecture campus, which is first of its kind in India.

‘Clean City Green City’, is again the initiative of the BIT’s parental company, Bearys Group. “I am a strong advocate of green practice and hope to make a tangible contribution in building a greener world” says Syed Mohammed Beary, chairman of Bearys Group and chairman of Indian Green Building Council, Karnataka chapter.

On the eve of celebration of World Green Building week, BIT Green club organized a unique programme of its kind 'BIT Green Day' where the students of BIT planted saplings in the campus.

Formal function started with an invocation followed by welcoming of guests by Sheikh Moidin K M, coordinator of Green club. He said “Learn from nature then you learn to live”.

On this occasion, Vinod Aranha, manager of Technical Development at US Green Building Council, Washington DC spoke about the benefits of sustainable and green architecture. He stressed on the enormous power which nature has hidden in it. He quoted ,“Think globally Act locally” to stop global warming.

In his talk, principal Dr S K Raikar expressed the importance of re-use, reduce, recycle in making BIT green.

Formal function was concluded by vote of thanks from Prof Palakshappa, HOD of Civil Engineering.

To mark World Green Building Week and to make our planet much greener, BIT Green Club planted saplings in and around the BIT knowledge campus. Students held the slogans of 'Go Green', one of the eye catching slogan was, ‘Go Green or Go home’. Students were

enthusiastic, after planting the saplings, they went ahead and cleaned campus and took oath to make BIT as a plastic free zone.

All the students and staff of BIT took active participation in the celebration.