Kaveri
Entrepreneurship Development Cell of the college arranged a session on the
topic ‘Entrepreneurship in Ecological
Sustainibilty on 21st January 2020. Principal, Dr. Ashok Agrawal, Vice Principal,
Dr. Muckta Karmarkar, Head- KEDC, Dr. Deepa Sathe, the resource speaker, Ms.
Ketaki Ghate and students were present for the same. The session took off after
the felicitation of the resource speaker by Dr. Deepa Sathe. She also shared a few
words on the goals and objectives of KEDC.
Ms. Ketaki Ghate has 20 years of work
experience. She is the Founder and Managing Partner at Oikos for Ecological
Services, an ecological consultancy, established in 2002. She is a trustee at
Ecological Society, Pune and working as a Faculty member in Ecological Society.
She has bagged awards like, Ramabai Joshi Award in 2006, Uncha Maza Zoka, award
by Zee Marathi in 2013, Awani Mitra Award in 2014, Green Enterprise Award in
2019 and many more. ‘We can live without technology but cannot live without
ecology’ was her opening statement for the session. She created awareness among
students saying there is a great need for the conservation of lands as it is degrading
due to human induced activities. Besides, she mentioned that increasing
consumerism puts a lot of pressure on land and Oikos works towards healing such
lands through native plantations. She also explained how the organisation works
with private land owners for nature conservation
& ecological restoration. She further said that this is a service
sector which needs minimum investment. She motivated the students to find their
likings and develop a passion out of it, as a passion results into a good and
sustainable career. She concluded the session urging students to take utmost
care of Mother Nature. She advised them to consider building a career in ecological
services, as along with contributing to a good cause it is relatively a stress
free career and gives a sense of job satisfaction as it brings one close to
nature.
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