MAKAUT to Celebrate World Environment Day
Kolkata, 29th May, 2023:
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), WB is celebrating World Environment Day at its Haringhata Campus on the 5th of June, 2023. The MAKAUT family is welcome to take part.
World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5 annually to encourage awareness about environmental protection. According to the United Nations, “The celebration of this day provides us with an opportunity to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by individuals, enterprises, and communities in preserving and enhancing the environment.
World Environment Day 2023 is hosted by Côte d’Ivoire and supported by the Netherlands, and the theme will focus on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution
About MAKAUT: The University came into operation formally with the assumption of the office of the first Vice-Chancellor on January 15, 2001, as a sequel to the promulgation of THE WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2001, under West Bengal Act XV of 2000 passed by the West Bengal Legislature. The University started its academic programme, on July 16, 2001, following a Notification from the Department of Higher Education; Government of West Bengal dated June 15, 2001, through the affiliation of Engineering and Management Institutions / Colleges and has entered the eighteen years of its functioning. The University is included in Section 2F and also in Section 12B of UGC and recipient of the UGC Grant. The University wants to grow to nurture innovative/novel ideas that would touch all segments of society, especially the marginalized ones. We look at technology from a broad social perspective and are organizing postgraduate courses in basic and applied sciences. The University has introduced new courses in emerging areas to develop, enhance, and higher education.