Academic Clubs

Environment club
The Environment club of Kristu Jayanti College aims to create awereness on various environment related issues prevalent today. The Environment club also strives to make the student concious of their environmental responsibilites and practice the principles of reduction, reuse and recycling of resources.

Kristu Jayanti College is comitted to work locally to improve social, economical and environmental well being of our community which will leave us with a greener Earth. The environment club instigates a sense of responsibility for the environment and a personal comittement to protect and preserve the environment among youth.

Activities performed under Environment Club

• Environment awareness [click here]
• Green audit [click here]
• Energy Audit
• Identification of Plants (Campus Flora)
• Waste management
• Soil amelioration

Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore, Department of Life Sciences has the privilege and has established herbal garden and maintaining within the campus with more than 80 species of important medicinal and aromatic plants, under the guidance of the management and professionally competent faculty, enthusiastic students strives to involve and get acquainted with the identity and usages of the medicinal plants which they come across. Keeping the view of herbal garden importance, the college management has actively supported the green initiatives of the department activities. The herbal garden is enriched with several herbs, irrigation facility and there are exclusive gardeners to maintain the garden. Plants are irrigated with water almost all the days. Efforts are still on to increase the present numbers. The garden includes everything from small herbaceous plants and vines to shrubs and trees, annuals to perennials, natives and non-natives. Various trees and herbs are marked with their common names and basic therapeutic uses so that common man can easily understand the importance of medicinal uses of herbs the functions. For clear and easy identification name plates of the plants with Kannada, Malayalam and botanical names are placed to help the students and public.

A place of quiet, communion, and learning, the herb garden is a haven for all who visit, work, and study on our campus. The herb garden also provides students with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience gathering and tending medicinal plants and offers a living example of many of the herbal medicines used. Our campus is eco-friendly, where we promote green and clean environment. Medicinal plants are located in close proximity to each other, labeled and organized into multiple demarcated garden beds, making them easy to identify and learn about. While this design is not typically how the plants are found in nature, it ensures that the plants are clearly identifiable which facilitates learning for students and visitors. Subsequently, when walking in the surrounding wild areas on campus, where plants are intermingled together, the process of plant identification becomes easier. The medicinal garden is located near the main entrance and is easily accessible, it serves as an important tool for teaching and research also to promote the medicinal values of the plants which grow mostly wild, in our surrounding and whose properties are beneficial in maintaining a balance between man and nature. The list of these plants along with their scientific name and usages are displayed in garden. The college has a well stacked collection of medicinal plants kept and maintained in a decorated plot of land.

Usefulness of the medicinal garden:
Herbal gardens are the precious source of raw material for medicinal remedies used in primary health care. Presently medicinal and aromatic plants are becoming increasingly economically important due to growing demand for herbal products to cure different diseases. Number of advantages is gained from the establishment of herbal garden as is ready fresh natural resource available for ingredients medicinally.

HIGHLIGHTS
1. About 10 years old garden so having many old trees.
2. Rare species are present so garden plays a vital role in conservation of medicinal plants biodiversity.
3. Plants are properly labeled –Kannada name, Malayalam name, scientific name and its common medicinal uses.
4. Garden is frequently visited by Students of our institute and other institutes.

FUTURE INITIATIVES
1. Medicinal plants cultivation, Green house and preservation and supply for research purposes
2. Educate local community people on medicinal plants.
3. To maintain greenhouse to cultivate subtropical and tropical medicinal plants.
4. Facilitate the marketability of the products.
5. Enhance entrepreneurial skills of the students.

Life Sciences club
The Life Science club serves as a forum for expert talks by renowned personnel from various biotech industries, national and intenational institutons. This helps the students to update their knowledge and keep pace with rapid scientific development. It also provides an oppurtunity for students to exhibit innovative and creative ideas during the exhibitions and fests conducted by the club.

The club activites assist the students to utilize their talents in the best way and help them to achieve their goals.