Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Swachcha Bharat Abhiyan'' is now reaching LD College of Engineering, states oldest engineering institute. LDCE is launching "Clean LDCE, Green LDCE'' on Saturday with over 1,000 first-year students and teaching and non-teaching staff members taking part in it. Having the biggest campus among all the government and private-run engineering colleges in the state, it has hundreds of trees within its campus. "Though our college is among the cleanest and greenest of the educational institutions in the state, it is littered with dried leaves having fallen from hundreds of trees planted all over the college campus'', said LDCE principal G P Vadodaria. The college is procuring 150 dustbins to be put at important places across the campus for use by students and others. Stating that cleaning the campus of dried leaves daily is a big challenge, Vadodaria said that the leaves would now be collected daily and put it in the dustbins. It would then be collected by garbage van of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. He said that the college also planned to use the leaves and other degradable solid waste generated in the campus for compost manufacturing which could be used as an organic manure for plants in the campus and it could also be sold to horticulturists and farmers some extra income. He said that the college also planned to launch a tree plantation drive during the current winter season to make the college further green. Vadodaria said that a large number of past alumni of the college, local BJP MLA Rakesh Shah and officilas of state road and building department would also participate in the campaign on Saturday.
