Allahabad University cleans teacher’s colony

ALLAHABAD: At a time when many celebrated Diwali and contributed to the garbage which lay scattered on the road, a professor at the department of Botany of Allahabad University, Prof N B Singh took up the challenge of cleaning the teacher's colony located at the campus of MNNIT's faculty quarters, on Saturday.

Prof Singh, who is also the garden incharge of AU, also caught hold of three snakes, from the shrubs that he cleaned on Saturday. The snakes were later let go free in the jungles of Phaphamau. Among these three, two were poisonous.

Prof Singh, who is also known for commuting on cycle since the day he joined AU, had earlier hogged the limelight when he, along with around three more cleaning staff of AU, cleaned the campus, walls and roads around AU and removed the posters and handbills which had littered on the road. Interestingly, Prof Singh do not reside in this colony but still cleaned the same.

On Saturday, Prof N B Singh arrived at the teacher's colony of MNNIT campus which houses the official quarters of both AU and MNNIT teachers. His team cleaned not only the roads but the main focus of the work was cleaning up the thickly grown shrubs and vegetation on the campus of the colony which had become safe haven for mosquitos and various other insects harmful for humans.

"I have taken up the challenge of not only making students and teachers aware of keeping their surroundings clean but I am also cleaning these places, but it sometimes pinches there is nil participation from others like recently, when in was cleaning a hostel, some of the inmates were showing me the dirty places so that I could clean it rather than joining me with a broom". But still the pledge would go on, taking hostels, campuses and building of AU, he added.