The memorable character of Phunsukh Wangdoo, portrayed by Aamir Khan within the movie ‘three Idiots’, stays etched in our reminiscences. Past the actor’s attraction, it was the character’s distinctive qualities and rules that made an enduring impression on the viewers. Rancho’s distinctive strategy in the direction of life and his capability to find sensible options for on a regular basis challenges set him aside. Moreover, his dedication to sharing data and making a optimistic influence on society, significantly among the many youthful era on the grassroots degree, showcased his dedication as an educator to empowering future generations.
At this time we’re going to let you know about Prof Mukti Kanta Mishra, the story of a real-life ‘Rancho’ from Odisha. The educationist not solely reworked a failed school in a distant a part of Odisha right into a college with six sprawling campuses, however he additionally made it an epitome of ecological self-sustainability, adhering to the institutional, social and particular person duty of being waste minimal and optimally using the varied assets. Certainly one of his important brainchildren is a skill-based training mannequin with parallel experiential & motion studying by on-campus industries in partnership with various trade giants. The journey began round 2005 when Prof Mishra and his long-time pal Prof DN Rao received the contract to handle a school in a tribal district of Odisha infested by the Left Wing Extremists. Attributable to appreciable disagreements within the school administration, they have been left with two decisions, both to give up or to turn into the trustees themselves, of which they selected the latter and subsequently determined to have a campus in Bhubaneswar and another elements
Because the campuses are largely residential, a considerable amount of raw and cooked waste is generated. From day one, the campuses have partnerships with native piggeries, which have been unable to search out meals for his or her livestock, to choose up the waste every day. The remaining meals waste is transformed to manure by biodigesters. Centurion Campus in Bhubaneswar was constructed on completely barren land as a result of it’s a laterite zone, however meals waste was used instead soil to groom and develop grass, varied crops and timber. All the wastewater of the hostels is handled and used within the fields and mango orchards.
Moreover, all of the waste of the library and different paper waste of the College are consumed throughout the College by changing it into handmade paper. And much more apparently, the plastic bottles amassed on the Campus due to the consumption of packaged drinks by college students, are shredded and utilized in making pavers manufactured throughout the College as a part of the Civil Engineering course. These pavers are additionally offered solely to different academic establishments on an I-2-I market foundation.
The College already has greater than 32 merchandise inside its varied campuses produced instantly or by its incubated social enterprise or by college students’ start-ups. The on-campus industries produce market-linked merchandise ranging from bread to rice, to CO2 supercritical extracts to transformers, to excessive precision elements for HAL and ISRO are a testomony to Professor Mishra’s imaginative and prescient. With product and productions alone, the college goals to have Rs 100 crore turnover by the tutorial yr 2025-26, which is at present round Rs 30-35 crore.
