ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT RAJAT SHAILENDRA PATNI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur | Nagpur, India | Advancing SDG 12 & UNAI 9
" To make world and surrounding a better place you always need to make a cultural change in the thing's which are bad. Millennium felllow helps student walk on this path and take sustainable change.
Hence I am excited for this project and to make a Cultural change "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Zero-Waste VNIT
To set up a system for the continuous propagation of change, we have decided to form a climate action society, under the official banner of our institution. As a society, our first goal is to develop a zero-waste plan for our university. The term zero-waste implies that no waste produced on campus is landfilled, and each type of waste is reprocessed and repurposed. We have conducted a waste audit of our campus and have been using the information we find to conduct a rudimentary economic analysis of the established waste management system. After we have done so, we will begin work on addressing the unsustainable aspects of the current waste management system, and proposing technical interventions for going zero-waste as a gated community. A zero-waste plan has thus been developed and, we are conducting an economic analysis to have quantitative proof of the returns obtained from such a plan. We will further present it before the relevant authorities of the institute and assist them in developing a zero-waste policy from the plan, which will act as approval for the implementation. The outcomes of this project involve the development of a zero-waste plan that will be able to translate to a dynamic zero-waste policy, and beginning the transition process to a zero-waste campus, addressing the multitude of dimensions required for sustainable change.
About the Millennium Fellow
Rajat Patni is a final year student of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur.
He is passionate about management and feels that sustainability is the most important thing to be taken care in today's world for every existing organisation. He has worked on various startups or waste management before and wish to contribute in this project by making VNIT a zero waste campus.
He will use his knowledge of supply chain,finance and analytics to make sustainable changes and contribute in the best way possible.
