It will cater tentatively to about 3,000 students
The eco-campus is to be developed on a well-planned, environment-friendly reed-bed zone waste water system and new biological technologies have been conceptualized to help in reducing the dependence on public utilities. (Photo: DC/File)
KOZHIKODE: Kerala’s first ‘smart, intelligent, eco-campus’ will come up on 310 acres at the Periya campus of the Central University in Kasargode (CUK). It will be a fully residential campus which will cater tentatively to about 3,000 students in different academic streams. In the long run, the campus will cater to 10,000 students, faculty and their families, and to non-teaching staff in the next 15 years.
“To meet the university’s academic mission in a manner that is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable, we believe that local material, construction practices and the repository of knowledge and traditional wisdom combined with modern technology and innovation should be used to build the campus”, said CUK Public Relations Officer Dr Girish Kumar. “For that, CUK has evolved the concept of 'smart, intelligent eco-campus,” he explained.
The eco-campus is to be developed on a well-planned, environment-friendly reed-bed zone waste water system and new biological technologies have been conceptualized to help in reducing the dependence on public utilities. The campus will have water harvesting systems, waste water and recycling, waste water agro-systems, solid waste management and recycling and all necessary low voltage systems and networks.
Solar panels, micro wind turbines, windmills and other renewable energy sources will be used. “By heavily using alternative energy sources we hope not only to be independent of the national power grid but also give power back to the grid,” said Girish Kumar.
The campus master plan includes an administrative block, academic schools, departments, centres, libraries, museums, research labs, auditorium, housing, hostels, guest houses, sports complex, and other common facilities like cafeteria, post office, central school, health centre and recreation facilities.
The construction of a building at Periya started on January 5 and if everything goes on as per plan, Kerala’s first eco-campus will be ready by 2017.
At present, 250-odd students of schools of international discussion, economics, social work, mathematics and computer science are studying there. CUK’s other transit campuses are functioning at Kasargode and Padannakad.
( Source : dc )
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