We are proud to announce that Lovely Professional University has been declared as recipient of ‘One District, One Green Champion’ Award by Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE). It is for the Government of India’s Swachhta Action Plan 2020-2021. Functioning under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, MGNCRE is striving to promote resilient rural India through ‘Higher Education’ interventions.
Feeling immensely happy and motivated on LPU being the recipient of Green Champion Award, Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal shares: “We are proud of receiving this honour.” Adding he said: “We strongly feel that a “Swachh” mind is developed through a “Swachh” environment. For this our faculty and students play the required role for people on the campus, and even in making the nearby villagers aware of the essential need for hygiene.”
Prior to this also, MHRD has ranked LPU among top-ten ‘Swachh’ (the cleanest) universities of the country. Ranking was for “Swachh Campus Rankings” under different 8 categories, where LPU has been declared among top-ten private residential universities of the country. For this, teams from AICTE & UGC inspected 205 institutions. From Punjab state, only LPU was ranked among top private universities’ Swachhta Ranking.
Similarly, LPU students’ team, too, got declared as ‘Youth Ambassadors’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s passionate clean India mission- ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA)’.