Student-Based Community Service Learning to Assess Water Issues in Rural Parts of Virudhunagar District of India

Abstract

Advancements in science and innovation have been carried out in the state of art engineering design standards for the improvement of humankind. Regardless, there is a basic need to take the benefits of science and engineering and offer reasonable responses for the headway of the overall rural population. The Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) in Biotechnology students of Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, India (KARE) refined the water-related issues faced by rural people of Virudhunagar district in Tamil Nadu. The students through their custom audits identified specific drinking water and wastewaterrelated issues faced by the rural people in one of the backward districts of Tamil Nadu. Afterward, the students had the option to foster the ideas to devise decisive solutions to the water-based issues of the rural people. The endeavors taken by the students through their half-year community-based projects have made advances in the instructive program to alleviate the water problems faced by the rural community. Besides, the solutions mandated by the students have been tested in this study. The solutions devised and tested by the students are of minimal expense and effectively moderate. Consequently, we prescribe that educational institutions incorporate socially applicable resultbased ventures for addressing the environmental problems of rural communities while enhancing transformational learning through conventional teaching methods to service-learning methods. Keywords— Community service project, drinking water, wastewater treatment, transformational learning