mumbai to fight against defecation in public places students participating in the ongoing iitbombay cultural festival mood indigo dropped their inhibitions and clicked selfies with the pot to participate in a nationwide campaign ngo habitat for humanity in india set up a stall at the festival and encouraged students to participate in order to raise awareness on how they can play a role in freeing india of open defecationas part of the campaign an awareness booth was set up at the powai campus for the fourday festival the biggest hindrance in eliminating open defecation is the silence surrounding it to break this silence we placed a potcommode on the campus and invited students to click pictures and selfies while sitting on it while students were initially taken aback by the sight of the pot later they happily participated said a release issued by the ngo not only this initiative has garnered support from youth through college festivals this year most festivals these days are centered around social message themes this year mood indigo which known for the social messages it conveys every time also launched a campaign piece of me an organ donation drive the students made an online portal with instructions on how to register as an organ donor they have also made the registration easier by making downloadable pledge forms for donation of organs the festival partnered with ngo shatayu which works in this area students also reached out to different hospitals to create awareness about organ donationhooner 2016 the festival of kj somaiya college of arts and commerce which concluded on saturday had several events surrounding the theme foresta promoting the cause of saving environment natural resources and animals at kpb hinduja colleges recentlyconcluded festival panaah students managed to raise funds for cancerstricken children from poor families and in another event raised about rs 225 lakh for the droughtaffected families in marathwada and vidarbha students of sies neruls bmm department are spending a day with children of mermier bal ashram at koparkhairane as part of the frames film festival at p dalmia lions college the festival dalmia lions utsav is inspired by the missile man of india late apj kalam