TURA, June 9: Meghalaya’s two well-known colleges — St Edmund’s College in Shillong, East Khasi Hills, and Don Bosco College of Tura — have been selected for the ‘One District One Green Champion’ award by the Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education under the aegis of the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, for the Swachhta Action Plan 2020-2021.
Meghalaya has been honoured to be bestowed with two awards by the Centre on the cleanliness campaign.
The two colleges are among 400 others from across the country to receive the award by the Education Ministry.
“The constant support of the District Administration particularly Deputy Commissioner Ram Singh made this award possible for the District and in particular for Don Bosco College. The certificate will be sent to the college through the respective Deputy Commissioner (DC),” informed Principal of Don Bosco College Fr Bivan Mukhim Rodrigues.
In 2020, Don Bosco College Tura completed the External Green Audit undertaken by the Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board (MPCB), Shillong. The Green Club of the College under the chairmanship of Dr Lilybell Ch Marak and Dr Sabindra Barman, Coordinator of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan of the college work really hard to achieve this feat.