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National Green Corps

National Green Corps (NGC) is one of the biggest environmental movements of MoEF in spreading environmental awareness among school children. The NGC involves school students in environmental related activities. The programme aims to establish Eco-clubs in about 60,000 schools throughout the Country. IES is the Resource Agency for NGC Programme in Delhi. The Society is working closely with the Department of Environment – Govt. of NCT Delhi.

The Programme: Background and Objectives

Realizing the potential of our YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALISTS – Children, the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India has developed a programme on National Green Corps (NGC) in the year 2001 in which children are the key actors. The programme aims to educate children about their immediate environment and impart knowledge about eco-system, their inter-dependence and their need for survival through visits and demonstration and to mobilize youngsters and instilling in them a spirit of scientific inquiry into environmental problems and involving them in the efforts of environmental preservation.

Under the National Green Corp programme, around 60,000 eco-clubs are formed throughout the country. All Kendriya Vidyalayas, schools affiliated to CBSE and ICSE are the participating schools in the programme. Through this programme, the students would not only get theoretical inputs about environment, but also involve in exploring nature to observe, learn more about its diversity and also the necessity to maintain its fragile balance. The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India has appointed Indian Environmental Society as a Resource Agency for Delhi to assist Nodal Agency in implementing the programme with the following objectives:

To make children understand environment and environmental problems.
To provide environmental education opportunities for school children.
To utilize the unique position of school children as conduits for awareness of the society at large.
To facilitate children’s participation in decision making in areas related to environment and development.
To bring children into direct contact with the environmental problems facing the society they live in and make them think of solution.
To involve children in action-based programmes related to environment in their surroundings.

Progress during the Year

The MoEF has appointed IES as a Resource Agency for Delhi to assist the Nodal Agency to implement the programme. IES assists the Nodal Agency in selection of schools and locally relevant resource materials, help in organizing training programmes for Master Trainers. It also assists District Monitoring and Implementing Committee in developing action plans and organizing training programmes for teachers-in-charge of eco-clubs. On behalf of MoEF, the Society has already published a brochure on NGC and disseminated widely among stakeholders.

This year, Indian Environmental Society has worked on the following themes on the following themes with the schools having eco-clubs:

Hands-on Environmental learning Activities
Water Quality Monitoring of River Yamuna

The activities under these above-said themes has encouraged school students to perform various hands-on environmental learning experiments and at the same time provides first hand experience in knowing their local environmental in a much better way.

The Society has organized awareness camps, training workshops, demonstration camps on the above-said themes. Lectures were also organized by the Society in the schools of Delhi on the following themes:

Environmental Education - Need of Hands-on Environmental Education Activities for School students
Techniques to Monitor the River Yamuna

The Society has also distributed some of its publications on Environmental Education during these programmes.

The Society has participated in the four days annual Eco-Meet organized by the Department of Environment, Govt. of NCT - Delhi during February 23 - 26, 2005 at National Bal Bhawan ITO, Delhi. During these four days eco-meet, the Society has displayed and distributed some of its publications and posters on Environmental Education and other related issues. Some of the instruments (for carrying out the various hands-on activities/experiments on environment) were also displayed during the Eco-meet.

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