The memorable character of Phunsukh Wangdoo, portrayed by Aamir Khan within the movie ‘3 Idiots’, stays etched in our reminiscences. Beyond the actor’s allure, it was the character’s distinctive qualities and ideas that made a long-lasting impression on the viewers. Rancho’s distinctive method in direction of life and his capability to find sensible options for on a regular basis challenges set him aside. Furthermore, his dedication to sharing information and making a constructive impression on society, significantly among the many youthful era on the grassroots degree, showcased his dedication as an educator to empowering future generations.
Today we’re going to inform you about Prof Mukti Kanta Mishra, the story of a real-life ‘Rancho’ from Odisha. The educationist not solely remodeled a failed faculty 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. One of his important brainchildren is a skill-based schooling mannequin with parallel experiential & motion studying via on-campus industries in partnership with numerous trade giants. The journey began round 2005 when Prof Mishra and his long-time buddy Prof DN Rao bought the contract to handle a university in a tribal district of Odisha infested by the Left Wing Extremists. Due to appreciable disagreements within the faculty administration, they have been left with two selections, both to stop or to develop into the trustees themselves, of which they selected the latter and subsequently determined to have a campus in Bhubaneswar and another elements
Since 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 select up the waste day by day. The remaining meals waste is transformed to manure via 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, numerous vegetation and bushes. The whole wastewater of the hostels is handled and used within the fields and mango orchards.
Furthermore, all of the waste of the library and different paper waste of the University are consumed throughout the University 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 University as a part of the Civil Engineering course. These pavers are additionally offered solely to different instructional establishments on an I-2-I market foundation.
The University already has greater than 32 merchandise inside its numerous campuses produced instantly or via its incubated social enterprise or via 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 parts 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 presently round Rs 30-35 crore.
