With the target of achieving all 17 sustainable goals in the coming future, we started off with – Zero hunger and Responsible consumption and production. The UNGC PRME Steering Committee of IIM Ranchi has launched 2 pilot initiatives for conservation of the two most important resources in modern lives- food and electricity. To promulgate awareness among the IIM Ranchi family members (students, teaching staff and non-teaching staff) about food wastage different measures like Posters and Flash mailers with catchy phrases are being circulated along with the data for world/country/state/city vs. institute level statistics.
This has also helped to ingrain a psychological impact and create sensitivity towards food wastage issue. For conservation of electricity, we conducted a competition between various hostel blocks in Khelegaon, with POCs (who volunteered themselves) in each block to run the campaign. The block with the maximum electricity savings (as compared to the previous month) was declared the winner. We are also aiming to promote the awareness of other SDGs in the near future.
I have come to realize that business and management schools play a key role in shaping the mindsets and skills of future leaders and can be powerful drivers of corporate sustainability. At IIM Ranchi we believe that change has begun and there’s still a lot to be done and we are constantly contributing to making the future managers aware of sustainability and business implications on the silent stakeholder i.e. environment.
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