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THEME: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, ENERGY CONSERVATION AND GREEN BUILDINGS

7. Conversion of Barren Lands:

• Barren lands have been transformed into gardens such as the Spiritual Garden, Anunaad-Sound Garden, and the Zen Garden.

• A dilapidated, vermin-infested erstwhile TB Sanatorium on campus which later housed scrap has now been renovated to
house plants and herbs instead and is called ‘Sanjeevani: The Horticulture Cell.’

8. Green Office Concept:
• All offices, learning centres, and common rooms adhere to the green office concept, integrating indoor plantations for a
healthier environment, energy conservation, pollution reduction, and nature conservation.

9. Plastic-Free Campus:

• The institution has implemented a prohibition on the utilization of disposable plastic, striving to transform into a ‘Zero Waste
Campus.’
• Instead of plastic bags, the campus produces eco-friendly bags from recycled newspapers.

• Plastic bottles are strictly prohibited within the campus, and all community members exclusively use copper and glass bottles.

Social and Economic parameters: The impact of IIM Indore’s sustainability initiatives on social and economic parameters is evident
through the following examples:
1. Rural Engagement Programme (REP):

Rural Engagement Programme (REP) is a unique initiative instituted with an objective to sensitize budding managers and
entrepreneurs at the Institute to various schemes undertaken by the government in villages, and to study and analyse their execution
and effectiveness. The entire set of participants is uniformly divided into groups of 10 each, based on their own choices. The entire
programme is organized in coordination with the Madhya Pradesh Mantralaya, Bhopal.

The entire week is characterized by visits to various blocks in the district where students critically analyse execution plans of
numerous government schemes and survey villages to observe the actual level of implementation. Through this process, they assess
the challenges that faced while executing the schemes and while identifying operational gaps that could possibly be bridged through
better planning and management strategies.

Image: Glimpses of IIM Indore’s Rural Engagement Program (REP)

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