Sathyabama has been practicing ISR since its inception. Sathyabama has adopted various initiatives that would benefit the society as a whole. The students and faculty are involved in community projects aimed at providing technological solutions to the problems faced by the society.
Sathyabama also strictly adheres to eco-friendly and sustainable development practices and advocate environmental protection initiatives like use of alternative and renewable energy, recycling of waste, reduction of plastic usage, reduction in carbon emissions, reduction of food wastage and adoption of organic farming.
INITIATIVES BY OUR INSTITUTION CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
ANBU SCHOLARSHIP
Sathyabama is an Inclusive University and works with the Motto “ Education for all” Anbu foundation is created by our Chancellor to help the poor and needy to pursue higher education. This foundation gives opportunity to hundreds of deserving students to continue with their education through Anbu Scholarship. Objective To provide opportunity to deserving students from economically poor background to pursue higher studies with full scholarship. Challenges faced Identifying and selecting the truly deserving students is a challenge. The Institution receives more than two thousand applications every year under this Initiative. The Institution has tied up with several NGOs across the state that identify the deserving students from rural and economically weak background. A field check is done in the interior villages and the NGOs volunteers sometimes have to travel long distances to check the authenticity. Around 500 students are currently studying in the Institution. This initiative has made change in the lives of thousands of children and their families. More than 3000 students have so far been benefited by this initiative and is successfully continuing.
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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT BUREAU
The bureau is mandated to facilitate the processes that contribute to empowerment of women, eliminate violence against women, economic and social empowerment of women with emphasis on health and education, gender mainstreaming of policies, program’s and institutional arrangements and awareness generation and advocacy for bridging information and service gaps. The objectives of the bureau are two-fold. The activities of the bureau are directed to empower the students of the institute and also the beneficiaries from the society including rural women, underprivileged and marginalized sections and minority communities.
Objectives
- Social empowerment and education of women
- Empowerment of vulnerable and marginalized groups and women in difficult circumstances
- Gender Parity
- Economic empowerment and poverty alleviation
Realising that teaching a person to fish is better than to feed him, Women empowerment bureau of the Institution conducts several training programmes and vocational courses for women of these villages to financially empower them. It also works with some of the NGOs for the upliftment of the downtrodden by providing them training in a vocation and facilitating income generation. Around 350 women are trained in mushroom cultivation, sea weed cultivation, ornamental fish culturing, solar lamp making, baking, tailoring, sanitary napkin making, house-keeping, beauty and wellness during the said period etc.
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MY SATURDAY UNIVERSITY
Sathyabama has introduced Skill Development Courses at the University for Government School Children under “My Saturday University” Programme where more than 50 Government Schools are benefited every year. The students of these Government schools can make use of the Laboratories of the Institution on Saturdays so that they can get equipped and learn about technologies
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GREEN INITIATIVES
Sathyabama advocates and supports the Green India initiative by the Govt. of India. The Institution has a devoted Eco Club to cater to Eco friendly initiatives. The students and faculty are involved to implement very green initiatives inside the campus and also in nearby communities.
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UNNAT BHARAT ABHIYAN SIST 2.0
Sathyabama, as a technical higher education institution, participates and contributes towards rural development. Sathyabama has adopted five villages nearby under UBA scheme to transfer and implement the technology for the transformational change and development of the villages. Sathyabama extends its support towards health, education, basic amenities and employment opportunities in the villages. Knowledge transfer and technological guidance to empower villages with effective solutions for their day to day problems has been the aim of sathyabama, and the students of sathyabama have effectively carried it out. Sathyabama focuses on the vision of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan “To bring a change in villages by leveraging knowledge institutions to build an inclusive India” and works towards achieving it.
Sathyabama has adopted the following Villages for overall development under UBA
1. Venkatapuram
2. Appur
3. Thenmelpakkam
4. Otteri
5. Kumizhi
Village house hold survey and Gramasaba
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Technology Interventions in adopted villages
Science on Wheels
We live in a society which primarily focuses on result oriented education. Therefore, there is a void emanating in young minds which leads to the lack of interest in investigations and innovations and break through. To fill the gap of the thought process, humanism, spirit of enquiry and reform , it is very much essential to motivate them by providing a scientific environment by ‘mobile science laboratory’ particularly to the rural students.
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Gramin Swatch Toilet at Kumuzhi village
Proper Hygienic Sanitary conditions are much talked about in the recent times. It is pitiable to note that still in many villages people do not use proper toilet system and are using farm fields. It is unsafe and unhygienic which they are aware of. This project has an objective to curb this menace. The ultimate aim of the project is to provide the most economical and a proper sanitary system. https://youtu.be/dhIBe0H6euQ
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Rural Industrialization and Entrepreneurship Development
This ritual waste is very common throughout India. Centre for Waste Management, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai has taken steps to collect ritual waste and has succeeded in making incense sticks adapting the 3R concept of Recovery, Recycle and Reuse. Collecting the ritual waste and processing it to obtain a value added material does not only provide options to make the environment clean but also serves as a potential for Rural Industrialization and entrepreneurship development, by initiating this objective in smaller demographic zones in Kumuzhi
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Rural Non-Invasive Primary Health Kiosk
The health kiosk will be of much use to the people to know their vital body parameters which in turn would give them an awareness of their health status. This would enable them to take precautionary health measures. Since there is no PHCs or sub-centre in Thenmelpakkam village, a nurse visits the village once in a week to give vaccination and medicines to younger children and see the health condition of pregnant women. The health kiosk would definitely pave way for a healthier and safer life for the rural people.
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NANOFORMULATIONS FOR SELECTED MOSQUITO LARVAE VECTOR CONTROL IN VENKATAPURAM VILLAGE
Considering the severity of the mosquito borne diseases it has become need of the hour to adopt preventive and control measures to halt the transmission of dengue. This in turn depends on the community acceptance and participation which again depends on the community awareness regarding dengue and its prevention. With this contextual under UBA project work, on behalf of Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology we have created awareness about the mosquito vector borne diseases like dengue among the rural population in Venkatapuram village by distributing pamphlet.
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Our Service at Adopted villages
Go Green & Zero Plastic
Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology has conducted UBA (Unnat Bharat Abhiyan) Camp on 17.02.2020 at Kumizhi village, Near Thiruporur. Around 60 students from NSS and NCC Participated in Awareness Rally on “Go Green & Zero Plastic" for the villagers and government school students also actively involved in Tree Plantation & village cleaning. As a part of this event, 25 lts of Biogenic Mosquito larvae control liquid was sprayed throughout the village in the water stagnant areas.
Dental and Medical camp
Personal hygiene is very important task to teach school age children to protect them from the threat of germs and disease. Among personal hygiene hand wash is important task; hence school students are given awareness on this. To bring this an easy and simple technique used foldscope microscope to identify the germs before and after hand wash. In addition, girls are taught the importance of the personal hygiene in the teenagers. In adopted villages monthly once Medical and dental camps were conducted.
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INSTILLING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN OUR STDUENTS
Students are encouraged to take up internships that instil a sense of social responsibility. Students work with NGOs and undergo internships and get involved in project work with societal concern. Student projects and internships with social objectives are given more recognition. The Centre for Waste management, Centre for Climate change studies and Centre for Ocean Research of our Institution provides internships to students that promote social responsibility. Students are encouraged to come up with project ideas that address social issues and developmental needs of the society. Students are motivated to take up projects work and internship on areas like energy.
