Energy is one of the important necessities of human civilization. The world continues to face challenge in terms of depleting energy resources. Scientists, engineers, economists as well as policy makers endeavor to develop technologies to efficiently harness, transmit, store and utilize it in a conducive policy and regulatory environment. A growing emphasis is being placed by India towards expanding the access to energy for its citizens, to harness renewable energy resources and to improve efficiency to energy utilization for realizing sustainable economic growth. To this; BITS community fully understand its responsibilities and social expectations.
To address the situation BITS has launched an energy awareness campaign in all its campuses called URJA “save today, survive tomorrow “. The campaign not only aims at making all BITS campuses energy efficient but also prepare professional who can take this issue out in the world and help making it more sustainable than what it is now. Apart from training the professionals and leading once again in being one of the most energy efficient campuses in India we also aim to inspire other academic institute and other professional bodies in launching such noble initiatives in their campuses.
URJA is basically being divided into 3 stages
· A Awareness : It aims at making individuals more responsible towards energy management issue because we believe youth form not only the future but also the platform of the society, changing their attitude towards energy will automatically create long term impact on society in term of energy conservation.
· S Short term solutions: It aims at increasing the present energy efficiency of our campuses by changing the parts of system that consume maximum energy.
L Long term solutions: It aims at replacing the high energy consuming systems with more energy efficient systems.
The duration and order of the programme can actually vary depending on the campus specific choices.
Launch of URJA:
The noble campaign was launched by the honorable chancellor Dr. K.M Birla during his visit to the campus from 3rd to 5th of February 2010. The launch of the program by the senior management has motivated our students who are now looking forward in making this campaign a big success and also extending it to the society.
