NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Service Commission (UPHEC) has issued a directive to all government-run faculties to make it obligatory for students to deliver old clothes and be offering them to the underprivileged on their campus via National Cadet Corps (NCC) wing.
These old clothes will be offered at ‘true-value’ shops which will be operated via the students.
“We have devised this plan and made it obligatory for all college scholars to participate in this initiative. The used-clothes market will be a round-the-year exercise. The clothes will have to be dry-cleaned and they will be given to underprivileged. The simplest fee to be taken is the dry-cleaning fee. Students were requested to deliver blank clothes which don't seem to be too worn-out. They should be in a state by which they can be worn properly,” said Rajiv Kumar Gupta, regional higher education officer, Meerut division.
The commissioner had sent a circular in January to 68 state-sponsored and government-operated faculties to start webhosting second-hand clothes market. The official said that this exercise may even function a hands-on coaching for students to hone their entrepreneurial abilities.
“The scholars will be helping the underprivileged and that can instil in them a habit of charity and social contribution. Secondly, via going through the exercise of dry-cleaning their clothes after which placing them up for sale, they'd learn to run their own endeavor. We are taking this exercise as a coaching gadget to develop an entrepreneurial spirit some of the college scholars in order that they can build their own start-ups. This will be like an extra-curricular job for them together with their regular path,” added Gupta.
These old clothes will be offered at ‘true-value’ shops which will be operated via the students.
“We have devised this plan and made it obligatory for all college scholars to participate in this initiative. The used-clothes market will be a round-the-year exercise. The clothes will have to be dry-cleaned and they will be given to underprivileged. The simplest fee to be taken is the dry-cleaning fee. Students were requested to deliver blank clothes which don't seem to be too worn-out. They should be in a state by which they can be worn properly,” said Rajiv Kumar Gupta, regional higher education officer, Meerut division.
The commissioner had sent a circular in January to 68 state-sponsored and government-operated faculties to start webhosting second-hand clothes market. The official said that this exercise may even function a hands-on coaching for students to hone their entrepreneurial abilities.
“The scholars will be helping the underprivileged and that can instil in them a habit of charity and social contribution. Secondly, via going through the exercise of dry-cleaning their clothes after which placing them up for sale, they'd learn to run their own endeavor. We are taking this exercise as a coaching gadget to develop an entrepreneurial spirit some of the college scholars in order that they can build their own start-ups. This will be like an extra-curricular job for them together with their regular path,” added Gupta.
Compulsory for college students to bring clothes for poor: UPHEC
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