Mangaluru: St. Aloysius institute of management and Information technology, Beeri organised Vanamahotsava here on July 26 at the college campus. The students planted the saplings to commemorate Vanamahotsava.
President of Kotekar Panchayat Uday Kumar, Junior Engineer Renuka, Member of Kotekar Pattana Panchayat Rohit and Hameed were guests of honour. Father Denzil Lobo SJ – Director of AIMIT, Prof Santosh Rebello – Dean of Department of Information technology and bioinformatics, along with the Student coordinator of MAGIS Eco Drive, Kevin Sequeira were present on the occasion.
The member of Pattana Panchayat, Hameed thanked the students for taking the initiative to keep the surrounding clean and quoted the great environmentalist and the social worker Salumarada Thimakka and asked the students to follow in her footsteps.
Fr Denzil Lobo SJ, Director of AIMIT, Beeri motivated the students by saying that they should begin by cleaning their room, then by cleaning their surrounding which automatically cleans the society because the cleaning begins from within.
Pranam and Supaksha compered the programme and the vote of thanks was delivered by student coordinator Kevin Sequiera.
Meanwhile, a garbage disposal box which was placed in front of the campus was removed. It may be recalled that the members of MAGIS Eco Drive, an association affiliated to AIMIT had met the concerned officials about the garbage mess and urged to take action.
