Date: 11.01.2023

Venue: Government Primary School Mathikere

Time: 2 pm to 4.30 pm

Objective

The main objective behind this drive is to create awareness aboutthe unused papers and converting them into a further usable notebook. Ahelpful gesture towards the needy by proper utilization of unused resourcesand also to help the needy primary school children with recycled writing notebooks.

Students of Department of Management Studies- BBA, M S RamaiahCollege of Arts, Science and Commerce conducted a Book Donation Drive‘ATIVARA’. A gesture of reuse and social responsibility on 11 th January 2023 atGovernment Primary School Mathikere, Bengaluru, Karnataka.At 2:30 PM, Dr. M Lakshmipathi Naidu, Mr. Narayana B, and Mrs. EvelynNischitha along with the students of BBA left to Gandhi Vidyalaya, DollarsColony and reached the venue by 2:45 PM. On arriving to the location,Faculties and students from BBA department were welcomed by the schoolchildren and Head Mistress of Government Primary School Mathikere. At 3:00PM the desk was arranged with the reusable note books ready to bedistributed. Before distribution, an encouraging speech was given by theschool Head Mistress and Dr. M Lakshmipathi Naidu regarding the usage ofrecycled papers as a means of protecting environment. Every student ofGovernment Primary School Mathikere stood in line and received the notebooks from the hands of Dr. M Lakshmipathi Naidu and students of BBA. Aftercompletion of the book distribution, the Students of MSRCASC along with thefaculties reached the college by 5:00 PM.

For the event “ATIVARA” to be successful, all the BBA students cametogether for collection of unused papers, left over from assignment books andskill development record book. The unused papers were removed from theused books and manuals, further students segregated those papers inrespective sizes and converted them into books. Students took an activeparticipation throughout the event.The books were latter distributed to around 60 students of GovernmentSchool by 30 student volunteers of BBA Department of MSRCASC. The schoolchildren were excited to receive the books and it served the purpose ofspreading happiness.The entire drive of book donation was handled by Mr. Anirudh K N, Mr.Dheeraj Kumar, Mr. Varun Onkar, Mr. Rajdeep and team under the guidance ofDr. M Lakshmipathi Naidu, Head of the Department and Mr. Narayana B,Assistant Professor, Faculty Coordinator, witha constant support from InstituteManagement.