This not only causes harm to atmosphere but also burn a hole in student’s pocket. One sheet of paper charges Rs 2 and each student has to devote Rs 30-40 to safe admission in a college.
Calculating in terms of weight roughly 66 tons of paper was applied for the duration of Online admission method. A typical A4 sheet is produced from 80 gsm paper weighs 5g (as it is 1?16 of an A0 web page, measuring 1m²). Students across the state applied additional than 6,600000 (6.6 ton) with 1 student making use of typical 12 copies. According to trading professionals estimated 200 sheets weigh 1 kg bringing weight of all round copies deposited to 6.6 ton. According to calculation produced by environmentalist it requires about 1,584 trees to extract 66 tons of paper.
Every student ought to have a digi-locker: Rajan
If documents of students are currently uploaded then there ought to be no requirement of hardcopies, mentioned Principal Secretary, Higher education division, Anupam Rajan. “If this is happening then it will be changed as students should have a digi-locker account-promoted by government- where all documents remain available,” mentioned Rajan.
24 trees make 1 ton typical workplace paper
66,000 kg (66 tons) of paper deposited by students in colleges across the state
Papers extracted from 1,584 trees applied by students for the duration of admissions this year