VIGNAN : LARA

• Post COVID-19 Sanitation Measures and Drill Action Plan
• Clean and functional toilets (365x24)
• Safe drinking water (365 x24)
• Clean surroundings
• Clean buildings/rooms
• Campus Landscaping
• Zero Littering
• Awareness about menstrual hygiene management and promotion of sustainable menstrual products
• Technology enabled solutions

• Organize awareness programs for better sanitation practices like using the toilet, hand washing, health and hygiene awareness, and garbage disposal
• Work with SHGs for mask making and other similar activities
• Perform Nukkad Nataks or street plays around Swachhta and COVID-19
• Conduct surveys and door-to-door meetings to drive behavioral change with respect to sanitation behavior
• Participate in Monitoring committees is to stop open defecation in villages
• Prepare Information Education Communication Material (IEC) or wall paintings to promote Swachhta Activities
• Set up RO plants in villages for safe and clean drinking water
• Setting up telemedicine and mobile health care centers
• Support Aanganwadi workers with innovative tools to ease their work
• Awareness about menstrual hygiene management and promotion of sustainable menstrual products
• Partner with local NGOs and CSR organizations in this field
• Activate Village Health and Sanitation committees under NRHM in collaboration with Village Panchayat

• Create awareness on waste management
• Encourage use of dustbins
• Village households' & public offices' waste audit
• Village households' & public offices' waste segregation
• Village households' & public offices' waste recycling mechanisms to be set up
• Recycling Farm waste
• Setting up community compost pits in villages
• Awareness camps for Clean and Green Village (Zero Littering – IEC Material) including banning single-use plastic
• Installing biogas plants
• Innovative Technology-based solutions for rural waste recycling (eg cow dung cake making machine, converting solid waste into bricks, etc.)
• Partner with local NGOs and CSR organizations in this field
• Technology enabled solutions
• Working with Village Panchayats, Self Help Groups, Sports clubs etc.

3. Theme: Water Management

Activities on Campus

• Management of Water harvesting structure and deep injection borehole near Jubilee Hall.
• Management of Rooftop rainwater harvesting Near Block C, Goa University.
• Management of bund to arrest surface runoff and increase infiltration of rainwater near Football Ground.

Activities in Community / Adopted Villages

4. Theme: Energy Management

• Audit of energy-efficient heating, cooling, lighting, and water systems on the campus
• Audit of building wise monthly use of electricity on the university campus
• Incentivize reduced electricity usage by depts/buildings
• Create a short-term and long-term plan for the use of solar energy on the campus
• Cycles on the campus (reducing carbon footprints)
• Reducing carbon footprints via intelligent Purchase Standard Operating Procedures(SOPs)
• Partner with local NGOs and CSR organizations in this field

• Awareness about energy saving measures through wall paintings in adopted villages
• Efforts to make available solar based equipment to villagers at affordable rates by establishing partnership with manufacturers.
• Wind and Solar Energy Plants
• Creating Sustainable Rural Energy Plans
• Survey of CFL/ LED lamps, electric fan regulator, and electronic ballast for tube light to conserve electricity
• Frictionless foot valves to considerably reduce the consumption of diesel in running the pump sets.
• Feasibility of using rechargeable battery-operated systems across various occupations and institutions
• Mechanical washing machines to empower women
• Awareness camps on energy-efficient electrical appliances
• Partner with local NGOs and CSR organizations in this field
• IEC about benefits of related government Programmes

5. Theme: Greenery