ICAR institutes step up Special Campaign 6.0 with waste segregation and e-waste drives
Farm research institutes across India are clearing black spots, digitising records and running cleanliness camps with farmers.
The Department of Agricultural Research and Education and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (DARE–ICAR) have intensified Special Campaign 6.0 across their institutes, the Ministry of Agriculture said.
Activities include office clean-ups, waste segregation, reuse of usable materials, scrap and electronic-waste disposal, record digitisation, plantation drives and better use of office space.
Institutes are identifying black spots in and around their campuses and running awareness camps on cleanliness with staff, farmers and local residents.
Source: Press Information Bureau (PIB), Government of India. Photo: PIB.