Compulsory for college students to bring clothes for poor: UPHEC
TNN | Updated: Feb 7, 2019, 01:42 IST
Illustration for representational purposeNOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Service Commission (UPHEC) has issued a directive to all government-run colleges to make it compulsory for students to bring old clothes and offer them to the underprivileged on their campus through National Cadet Corps (NCC) wing.
These old clothes will be sold at ‘true-value’ shops which will be operated by the students.
“We have devised this plan and made it compulsory for all college students to participate in this initiative. The used-clothes market will be a round-the-year exercise. The clothes should be dry-cleaned and they will be given to underprivileged. The only charge to be taken is the dry-cleaning fee. Students have been asked to bring clean clothes which are not too worn-out. They have to be in a state in which they can be worn properly,” said Rajiv Kumar Gupta, regional higher education officer, Meerut division.
The commissioner had sent a circular in January to 68 state-sponsored and government-operated colleges to start hosting second-hand clothes market. The official said that this exercise will also serve as a hands-on training for students to hone their entrepreneurial skills.
“The students will be helping the underprivileged and that will instil in them a habit of charity and social contribution. Secondly, by going through the exercise of dry-cleaning their clothes and then putting them up for sale, they would learn to run their own enterprise. We are taking this exercise as a training system to grow an entrepreneurial spirit among the college students so that they can build their own start-ups. This will be like an extra-curricular activity for them along with their regular course,” added Gupta.
These old clothes will be sold at ‘true-value’ shops which will be operated by the students.
“We have devised this plan and made it compulsory for all college students to participate in this initiative. The used-clothes market will be a round-the-year exercise. The clothes should be dry-cleaned and they will be given to underprivileged. The only charge to be taken is the dry-cleaning fee. Students have been asked to bring clean clothes which are not too worn-out. They have to be in a state in which they can be worn properly,” said Rajiv Kumar Gupta, regional higher education officer, Meerut division.
The commissioner had sent a circular in January to 68 state-sponsored and government-operated colleges to start hosting second-hand clothes market. The official said that this exercise will also serve as a hands-on training for students to hone their entrepreneurial skills.
“The students will be helping the underprivileged and that will instil in them a habit of charity and social contribution. Secondly, by going through the exercise of dry-cleaning their clothes and then putting them up for sale, they would learn to run their own enterprise. We are taking this exercise as a training system to grow an entrepreneurial spirit among the college students so that they can build their own start-ups. This will be like an extra-curricular activity for them along with their regular course,” added Gupta.
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