A field trip was organized to Yusuf Meherally Centre – by Institution’s Innovation Council On the 25th April 2023, 24 students with 3 faculties went for a field trip to Yusuf Meherally Centre to learn and understand sustainable practices. The trip was organized with the motive to understand sustainable practices and how we can inculcate them in the future.
The students were first given a brief history of the Centre. The centre was started in memory of Yusuf Meherally a freedom fighter in the year 1961 and was formally inaugurated in 1966, by Dr. Zakir Husain, the then Vice President. Yusuf Meherally Centre deals in various social initiatives such as education, healthcare, women empowerment, rural development, employment generation, environmental protection, re-popularizing the values of the freedom movement, and providing relief during natural calamities. A tour of the place, the place consists of a small-scale oil factory, soap-making factory, pottery workshop, carpentry workshop, Bapu Kuti (replica of Gandhi ji’s last home), Vermicompost factory, and nursery. All these places practiced sustainably, using only natural and organic products and generated income and employment for people from nearby villages.
