ECOCLUB

ECOCLUB

Eco-Clubs in school :

Eco clubs in schools will empower students to participate and take up meaningful environmental activities and projects. It is a forum through which students can reach out to influence, engage their parents and neighbourhood communities to promote sound environmental behavior. It will empower students to explore environmental concepts and actions beyond the confines of a syllabus or curriculum. While everyone, everywhere, asserts the importance of ‘learning to live sustainably,’ environment remains a peripheral issue in the formal schooling system..

objectives:

1. Action based activities like tree plantation, cleanliness drives both within and out side the school campus.
2. Grow kitchen gardens, maintain vermin-composting pits, construct water harvesting structures in school, practice paper recycling etc.
3. Motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean by undertaking plantation of trees.
4. Promote ethos of conservation of water by optimizing the use of water.
5. Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
6. To develop skills of observation, experimentation, survey, recording, analysis, reasoning needed for conserving environment through activities.
7. Organise seminars, debates, lectures and popular talks on environmental issues in the school to motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean
8. Promote ethos of conservation of water by optimizing the use of water and cleaning of water body in the adjacent area.
9. Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
10. Educate students to create awareness amongst public and sanitary workers, so as to stop the indiscriminate burning of waste which causes respiratory diseases.
11. Prepare inventories of polluting sources and forward it to enforcement agencies.