Sustainability in Practice is a year-long, hands-on learning lab that empowers our business students to become agents of change. This mandatory 4-credit program, one of the first of its kind in India, challenges students to develop and implement real-world solutions to pressing societal and environmental challenges.
Our Unique Approach
We believe that tomorrow's leaders need more than theory—they need a sustainability mindset. In this living laboratory, student teams:
- Design impactful projects aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Partner with a diverse range of stakeholders—from NGOs and businesses to local communities.
- Mentored by dedicated faculty, who guide them every step of the way.
Since its inception in 2016, more than 1200 MBA students have participated in this transformative experience. Their projects have generated a positive impact in critical domains like education, health, agriculture, and gender equality. This transformative journey is a testament to our students' passion and our institute's commitment to building a better, more sustainable world.
SWASTHYA SETU (A BRIDGE TO HEALTH)
Swasthya Setu team worked to increase awareness about health issues like Diabetes (Type-1 and Type-2) in villages Behra and Barwala. They partnered with Primay Health Centre Barwala and Anganwadi centers near Barwala Region to reach to the local villagers. They organized multiple health camps where they conducted Diabetes tests of villagers who showed interest, using Glucometers and testing kits. They collaborated with local health professionals to provide medical advice to patients and make their medical camps more effective.
Student Team: Aaditree Jain, Aditi Sharma, Akshay Banthia, Ananya Rajput, Arshjeet Singh and Aryaman Bali
Digital Literacy for school students
This project was designed to increased knowledge of school students about digital tools like Youtube and AI, and helped them in utilizing these tools in everyday life to enhance their opportunities for education and work life. The team developed fun and engaging learning modules for training government school students on using YouTube and AI based tools. They trained 100+ students in 3 local government schools through their modules and provided hands-on experience.
Student Team: Abhishek Choudhury, Arishbha Sahni, Deepika, Devesh Prabhakar, Gurleen Kaur and Paras Bansal.
PROJECT-AASHYEIN: Supporting Pingalwara
Project Aashyein Team volunteered at Pingalwara, Chandigarh. Pingalwara is a renowned charitable organization in Amritsar, India, founded in 1947 by Bhagat Puran Singh. It provides care and support to the homeless, disabled, and elderly, running facilities like homes, rehabilitation centers, and schools. The team worked to bring more students and individuals to volunteer at Pingalwara or donate resources towards this noble cause. Their aim was to make more people experience and spread the values of love, care, and selfless service towards those who have been neglected or forgotten. They brought 28 new volunteers to Pingalwara and raised 10,000 worth of donation (incuding old clothes, shoes, food) to the cause.
Student Team: Ritvik Yadav, Sanchit Talwar, Sanskriti Mundra, Shreya, Tushar Jagota and Tushar Pundir.
The Binfluencers – Plastic waste management
The Binfluencers team launched a plastic waste management initiative targeting nearby schools, encouraging children to repurpose multi-layered plastics into durable products. Through creative workshops and hands-on activities, students from local government school learnt to transform waste into useful items, fostering both environmental responsibility and an entrepreneurial mindset. Additionally, the team developed a prototype of a brick made from MLP plastic waste.
Student Team: Aditya Garg, Akhil Pathania, Amartya Bhatt, Arushi Sharma, Gauranshika Chawla and Gauri Kant Verma.
Personal Hygiene & Health Check-up
This team took it upon themselves to improve the personal hygiene habits of primary school students at the government school. They first inspected their habit of brushing their teeth and washing of hands. They conducted multiple awareness sessions with these kids and instructed them to keep track of following the habits every day. The team also organized a free dental checkup for all the kids and subsidized treatment for the ones with some issues. The team observed significant improvement in their dental hygiene, which was also supported by the principal.
Student Team: Anoushka Sangwan, Rishita Taneja, Sparsh Sharma , Tanupriya and Vartika Gaur.
Career Guidance for Higher Secondary School students
This student team developed a model for awareness about future career options and enhancing employability skills. They conducted multiple career guidance and aptitude-building sessions for the students studying in classes 9th, 10th, and 12th in local schools. They invited the school students to our campus and conducted a stage speaking event, which boosted the confidence of the high school students. The team also developed a digital database with relevant career information and distributed it to students of different schools through WhatsApp.
Student Team: Akshit Sharma, Ritik Goyal, Saijal Gulati, Shruti Gupta, Sukrit Gupta and Tamanna Puri.
Efficient waste management at Village Behra
This team of 5 students collaborated with the local Sarpanch (municipality) to develop a waste management system for village Behra, where our campus is located. They connected with a local NGOs to develop diverse ideas. The students mapped all the waste hotspots of the village. They also conducted door-to-door awareness campaigns in more than 30 village houses to gather support for the idea. The residents joined the team in a waste collection drive. The team's efforts were appreciated in the local language newspaper. This motivated the Sarpanch of the village to commit to creating a segregation area and compost pit for the village.
Student Team: Praduman Thakur, Priya, Shreya, Arsh Arora, Tanisha and Pranav Dogra.
Personal Finance for school students
This team aimed to train every school going student in Chandigarh about personal finance, which is in line with the recent National Educational Policy (NEP) in India. They designed a module on understanding personal finance and practices to apply in their personal life. The team has delivered these modules to students from 4 government schools, reaching more than 200 students. They were able to instill this module in one of the school’s curricula too.
Student Team: Rhythm, Geetansh Gulati, Piyush Singh Panwar, Saksham Arora, Trisha Bansal, Shivam and Yashika Gupta
Reduce water wastage
This team aimed to reduce water wastage at our business school. They developed a QR code based feedback system to expedite water related maintaince issues. This QR based feedback system improved the turn-around time of water related maintence issues thereby reducing the water wastage. They also developed a pilot drip irrigation system which uses waste water from RO fileration system to irrigate ornamental plants at our campus. They developed the systems in such a way that these can be scaled to other institutions also.
Student Team: Piyush Kapila, Neeraj Thakur, Harshita Parimoo, Ananya Jain, Hrishikesh Narayan and Vipul
Menstrual Hygiene
This team worked to generate awareness about menstrual hygiene among the rural population and knowledge about improving personal hygiene among our students. The team also introduced the sustainable menstrual products like menstrual cup, biodegradable pads to our student and faculty.
The team conducted a campaign for adolescent girls and women in the village to make them aware about menarche and periods related issues. They conducted a pad donation drive for rural women who were using clothes or rags to facilitate a behaviour change. The team did receive a positive response from the population.
The team has generated awareness regarding sustainable menstrual products like menstrual cups through campaigns in the campus. They created awareness among ground staff regarding disposal of menstrual products and about maintaining personal hygiene through interactive sessions. Addressing both audiences resulted in improvement in the disposal methods followed in the campus.
Student Team: Shreya Srivastava, Riya Mahajan, Mehak Goel, Arshiya Makar, Nishtha and Vaibhav Rattan
Holistic development
This project was intended for Holistic Development of school children. During their school visits, the team witnessed a gap in the all round development of the students. They worked on awareness about future career options, enhancing employability skills, environmental sensitivity and participation in physical and extracurricular activities among children. The team conducted multiple career guidance sessions and aptitude building sessions for the students studying in classes 10th and 12th.
They also conducted a competition based plantation drive. In this competition students were divided into various groups. Each group was given a plant to take care of. The group with the plant with the most growth was declared as the winner.
They collaborated with an NGO and provided Excel classes to the students of the NGO.
Student Team: Rahil Baria, Rupesh Mahotra, Devika Grover, Dhwani Pathania, Ritvij Aggarwal and Aashima Gupta
KalaHub
Realizing the limitations of traditional artisans in tech capability, Kala-Hub's worked to build a platform that bridges the gap between artisans and consumers by providing them with an easily accessible market, both online and offline. The group identified self-help groups in the nearby area who had been making traditional handicrafts and helped them market the products by building a website and running an Instagram page to build an online presence. They even set up exhibition stalls at various educational events where they sold handmade phulkari’s, portfolio folders, sarees, and stationary made by these rural women artisans
Student Team: Nishita Bansal, Saumya Anand, Yashica Khanna, Ishika Singh and Prikshit Kumar
Empowering Women Through Self-Defence
We have come a long way, particularly in terms of women's becoming more equal under the law. Fortunately, workplace discrimination is now a crime, but unfortunately, women still experience it. Fortunately, sexual harassment is now a crime, but unfortunately, women still experience it. Fortunately, assault on women is now a crime, but unfortunately, women still experience it. The list goes on; women are being harassed every day, verbally or physically, and there is not enough monitoring to give women back their rights in the male-dominated society we are living in, but the truth is that women are not weak; they just don’t know how to react in a certain way, because they haven’t discovered their potential yet.
The project "Empowering Women through Self-Defense," is aimed at providing training to strengthen women's capacity to defend themselves against any form of attacks and increase their self-confidence. The team created a social media page to influence and motivate women to learn self-defense and tell them about the benefits of self-defense. Multiple self-defense training programs were organized at our campus with the help of an instructor who trained our students about various self-defense techniques. In addition, an online self-defense training webinar was organized to reach a farther audience. The team also launched a startup on LinkedIn through which they shared stories of unsung heroes, their work, and what they have done
Student Team: Kritika Banshir, Archit Gangwal, Srishti Arora, Shivika Mahesh, Deepanshu uppal and Kandarp Goel
Sensitivity Towards the Environment
Focusing on the challenge of huge plastic waste and deforestation, team 6R made their aim to create awareness among the masses about environmental degradation and how humans have a moral obligation to protect the environment and promote sustainable development of the planet for future generations. They concentrated their efforts on school going children. They conducted workshops on consequences of plastic pollution and deforestation to government schools in Punjab. The team also organised a plastic collection drive, tree-plantation drive, and making of eo-bricks initiative at the schools.
Student Team: Jasleen Kaur, Muskan Gumber, Sunidhi Suneja, Siddhant Parihar, Shivangi Sharma and Danish Singh Jamwal
Events/Seminars/Activities
Biodiversity Regeneration
- We have a biodiverse green campus maintained by our dedicated horticulture team.
- We recently planted 2 food forests in association with Roundglass Foundation – one of 600 trees & one of 400 trees.
- These forests have more than 50 varieties of native trees including fruit and medicinal plants.
The SRS Club launched a smart carpooling initiative, DriveSync.
- The SRS club launched an awareness campaign to encourage carpooling to our campus. They launched a smart carpooling initiative, DriveSync.
- DriveSync is a dedicated WhatsApp group where students, faculty, and campus residents can coordinate daily travel — saving fuel, reducing emissions, and building new connections along the way.
A student-driven cleanliness drive at village Behra – conducted by SRS Club
- The SRS club conducted a cleanliness drive on 30 April 2025 at a selected spot in village Behra.
- They were approached by a few enthusiastic youth from the village who expressed appreciation and showed interest in future initiatives.
The Pondman of India, Mr. Ramveer Tanwar
The Pondman of India, Mr. Ramveer Tanwar, was invited for a talk with the MBA students. We also visited and analyzed ponds in Village Behra and Samgauli to initiate pond-cleaning projects.
- Our student team visited local village ponds in Behra and Samgauli with Mr. Ramveer to initiate cleaning projects.
- They interacted with local villagers during these visits.
A career guidance session for 140+ school students
Team Career Dost organized a career guidance session attended by 140+ school students and teachers from three local schools:
- Sarvhitkari Vidya Mandir Sr. Sec. School
- Swaragawasi Gurnam Singh Saini Sr. Sec. School, Derabassi
- Government Sr. Sec. School, Samgouli
