College students help BMC keep city clean

College students in the city have started taking on the role of Advanced Locality Managements (ALM), giving residents around their colleges lessons in garbage segregation, water conservation and cleanliness.

College students in the city have started taking on the role of Advanced Locality Managements (ALM), giving residents around their colleges lessons in garbage segregation, water conservation and cleanliness.

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“From creating awareness about issues through seminars, discussions and campaigns, to actually talking to ward offices and others involved, colleges are trying to increase public participation,” said Subhash Patil, ALM officer, BMC. “From January this year, five colleges have assumed the role of ALMs,” Patil said.

For students of Guru Nanak College of Arts, Science and Commerce, located in flood-prone Sion-Koliwada, the responsibility is an extension of their curriculum. “We are in an area that requires a lot of social and civic work,” said Harbhajan Kaur Anand from Guru Nanak Vidyak Society, which runs the college. “We wanted students and staff to be part of the change here,” she said.

Last week, students from Patuck College of Commerce and Management in Vakola, had a seminar for 5,000 school students and parents, on issues affecting the area. “We are eager to work with the civic body,” said principal Dr Kamalini Pathak.