NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Service Commission ( UPHEC ) has issued a directive to all government-run colleges to make it compulsory for students to bring old clothes and offer them to the underprivileged on their campus through National Cadet Corps ( NCC ) wing.These old clothes will be sold at ‘true-value’ shops which will be operated by the students.“We have devised this plan and made it compulsory for all college students to participate in this initiative. The used-clothes market will be a round-the-year exercise. The clothes should be dry-cleaned and they will be given to underprivileged. The only charge to be taken is the dry-cleaning fee. Students have been asked to bring clean clothes which are not too worn-out. They have to be in a state in which they can be worn properly,” said Rajiv Kumar Gupta, regional higher education officer, Meerut division.The commissioner had sent a circular in January to 68 state-sponsored and government-operated colleges to start hosting second-hand clothes market. The official said that this exercise will also serve as a hands-on training for students to hone their entrepreneurial skills.“The students will be helping the underprivileged and that will instil in them a habit of charity and social contribution. Secondly, by going through the exercise of dry-cleaning their clothes and then putting them up for sale, they would learn to run their own enterprise. We are taking this exercise as a training system to grow an entrepreneurial spirit among the college students so that they can build their own start-ups. This will be like an extra-curricular activity for them along with their regular course,” added Gupta.

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