CHENNAI: Young doctors of Stanley Medical College took a vow on Wednesday to nurse plants on their college hostel premises.
The vow was made in an effort to safeguard the environment.
Project Green Hands was launched in collaboration with Isha Foundation as part of the freshers’ orientation day celebrations.
The dean-in-charge, A. Sundaram, said the students were set to develop a nursery by planting as many as 25,000 seedlings on the hostel campus. The plants grown in the nursery would be distributed free of cost across the State in about three months, he said. The number of plants would eventually be increased to one lakh with the support of college’s alumni association. The members of the association and students of 1957 batch sponsored an Internet library in the college. The e-library was inaugurated in the presence of Health Secretary V.K. Subburaj and founder of KKR ENT Hospital K.K. Ramalingam. The alumni association also donated nine computers to the college.
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