To reach 100% open defection free North Karnataka rural villages for this we are taking various steps regarding to increase the awareness on sanitation and hygiene. In this regard to create an awareness for college students we sponsored an event in “NIRVANA-12” a state level techno fest organized by Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering,Gulbarga.
The fest given an opportunity to sponsor an event called Markage conducted by ‘Industrial Production’ branch students where the participant students had 3 rounds, in 1st round they gave speech on ‘convincing the village people to build a own toilet’, ‘convince the industrialist to invest on construction materials of toilet’ or ‘Convince the government to change their policies towards sanitation in villages’. In the next round the students prepared a logo and tag line for an initiative which is working for convincing village people to construct a toilet. The final round was on Integrated marketing approach where students assumed to have 5 lakh in their hand by using this they should convince 1000 people in villages to construct toilet in 45 days.
The students participated very much enthusiastically and gave many best ideas to convince the villagers, industrialist and government and gave some best slogans and pictures which can be shown to village peoples for convincing to construct toilet.