AWANTIPORA, May 30 -- As a pre-cursor to World Environment Day 2025 celebrations scheduled for 5th of June, 2025, the Department of Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change, IUST, in collaboration with the Department of Ecology, Environment & Remote Sensing, J&K Government, Municipal Committee, Tral, and Municipal Committee, Awantipora town, organized a series of awareness programmes under the national theme "One Nation, One Mission - End Plastic Pollution."

The programmes included an inter-university painting competition, in which students from SKUAST-Kashmir, Cluster University Srinagar, Kashmir University, and IUST translated their creative expressions on the evils of plastic pollution onto canvas. This was followed by an inter-...