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| ‘Population pressure, consumerist life style big threat to biodiversity’ | | ‘Paryavaran Mitra’ workshop | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
KISHTWAR, MAY 07- As part of world’s biggest ever environment campaign in India, involving two crore students and two lakh teachers from two lakh schools, a training workshop for the successful implementation of Paryavaran Mitra (PM) programme was held at Kishtwar this morning.
Aimed at promoting “sustainability and climate change education”, the PM project will run up to 2013 engaging 20 million children across 626 districts in the country including Jammu and Kashmir with the joint efforts of Centre for Environment Education (CEE) with support from Union Ministry of Environment & Forests and Arcelor Mittal. The project will cover a population of 10 crore.
About 300 schools have been registered in J&K under the PM programme and the education material, developed in English, Hindi and Urdu, has been distributed to all the schools. The WWF-India (J&K Chapter), Centre for Environment Education and Training (CEET,) and Arjun Youth Club based in Doda are the partner NGOs helping implementation of the programme in Jammu region.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Bhim Sen Tuti, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kishtwar expressed concern over the alarming environmental degradation and called for joint efforts for combating it effectively. He said increasing population pressure and consumerist life styles are leading to alarming loss of biodiversity and referred to the smuggling of wildlife, butterflies and other produce like sandalwood in the state that had a big impact on the environment. He sought the role of youth in checking this menace and dwelt on relationship between environment, development and sustainability.
Chairperson WWF-India, J&K Chapter, Dr. CM Seth talked about the national green corps, national environmental awareness campaign schemes that WWF-India has been implementing in the State as a resource agency. He guided CEO, officials and teachers on what kind of projects can be conducted in schools, utilization of funds, writing of and submission of good reports, sharing of experiences and involving community in conservation through school children.
Regional Director CEE, J&K, Abdhesh Gangwar explained how teachers can use these projects for making teaching learning interesting and locally relevant linking classroom education with immediate environment. He shared experience and success stories from across the country. Noble prize winning film “An Inconvenient Truth” and other relevant films “A Weeping Apple Tree” were screened during the workshop.
Suresh Rana of CEET and Pankaj Raina of Jammu University deliberated on the local environmental issues and the ways to address these through NGC, NEAC and PM projects. Mr. Ajit Sharma, Chief Education Officer assured full cooperation for successful implementation of the programme.
An environment oath on behalf of Dr. APJ Abdul Kamal, a green crusader and former President of India, was administered to the participants. The outstanding teachers, officials of the department of education, and NGOs who did good work for environmental protection were given awards. Children recited poems related to environment and performed a skit creating awareness about local environmental problems and its solutions.
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