Electronics Club - i2R, an awareness campaign on e-waste and its management

Electronics Club organizes one awareness program every year under the event name “i²R”. This time, “i²R”, an awareness campaign on e-waste and its management was organized by the II year BSc (PME and CME) students on Friday, 14 February 2014 as a part of Electronics Club activities.

There were about 20 teams from both PME and CME classes taking part in this campaign and campaign was held in the Christ University Campus.

The students explained the significance of understanding the e-waste and its management to the visitors. They also showed the charts and power point presentations with a lot of statistics to highlight the harmful effects of the chemicals and materials present in the discarded electronics gadgets like mobile phones, calculators, televisions, PC mother boards etc.

They handed over a pamphlet with a brief description on e-waste, responsibility of the user and also details about a few government departments and NGOs working in managing the e-waste.

The participating teams were very happy after the event that, they could sensitize their fellow friends, Christites with regard to the e-waste. 

The faculty members of other departments also interacted with students during the program. All the faculty members of the department of Electronics were present during the program and provided necessary guidance to the students.