The goal of NGC is to provide opportunities for school children to redirect their consciousness and actions to create a more sustainable planet. Through novel educational approaches and experiences, students are taught to go into issues in-depth.
The objectives of the programme are:
- to impart knowledge to school children, through hands-on experience, about their
- immediate environment, interactions within it and the problems therein.
- to develop requisite skills of observation, experimentation, survey, recording, analysis and reasoning for conserving the environment through various activities.
- to inculcate the proper attitude towards the environment and its conservation through community interactions.
- to sensitize children to issues related to environment and development through field visits and demonstrations.
- to promote logical and independent thinking among children so that they are able to make the right choices in a spirit of scientific inquiry.
- to motivate and stimulate young minds by involving them in action projects related to environmental conservation.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, along with the State Governments, hopes to involve the masses across the country in an environment conservation movement by triggering a chain reaction that starts from school children - the ‘early adopters’ – and moves on to include society and ultimately the decision makers. |
