Training Workshops in Nagapur

As part of awareness and education initiatives in Maharashtra state CPREEC organized a series of Training Workshops for the benefit of Teacher trainees in and around Nagpur city from 16 February to 20 February 2009 in collaboration with the Consumer Education Society. Around 1000 B.Ed and D.Ed students participated in the Environment Education workshops. The current topics such as Biodiversity conservation, Climate change mitigation, Sustainable development were some of the topics covered during the workshop by the experts. C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre is a Centre of Excellence of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, established jointly by the Ministry and the C.P. R Foundation, Chennai. CPREEC has been set up to increase consciousness and knowledge about environment and the major environmental problems facing the country today.
Udaya Kumar Gali and S. Chourasya of Consumer Education Society, R. Sabesh, Officer in charge, AP state office, CPR Environmental Education Centre, Hyderabad were the resource persons in all the programmes.

Photography and Cartoon competition

Directorate of Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps (Department of Environment, Forests, Science and Technology) announced a state level Photography and Cartoon competition on environmental themes for professional cartoonists and photographers. Cash awards of Rs.5000, Rs 3000, Rs.2000 for the best three entries focussing on the topic environmental destruction and conservation will be given on the occasion of the World Environment Day. The entries can be sent by e-mail to ngcap.dir@gmail.com

Training Consumer Activists

Gali Udaya Kumar, Secretary, Consumer Education Society; Sharma, Director, Bureau of Indian Standards; Gourishankar, Chairman, CAPCO; Kasu Venkata Krishna Reddy, Minister of Consumer Affairs and Civil Supplies; M.Nageswara Rao, General Secretary, CAPCO

Confederation of Andhra Pradesh Consumer Organizations organized a training programme for the representatives of voluntary organizations. Minister of Consumer Affairs and Civil Supplies Kasu Venkata Krishna Reddy attended the meet and assured that the government is committed to strengthen the consumer movement in the state. He interacted with the representatives of consumer organizations for about three hours and listened patiently to the suggestions given by them.

World Environment Day 2006

On the occasion of World Environment Day 2006, Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps organized an event on 5th June 2006 at VUDA Children’s Theatre, Visakhapatnam.
Sri. Nagulapalli Srikanth, Municipal Commissioner, Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation has attended the programme as a Chief Guest.

The young students participated in the month long eco-summer camps organized by Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps have expressed their concern on environmental issues through dance, music and other art forms.

Ms.Sita, Superintendent of District Bala Bhavan and Sri Gali Udaya Kumar, Project Officer of Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps have coordinated the programme.

Green Run

Representatives of Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board, Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps, Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation and other Self Help Group members participating in the Green Run organized on the occasion of World Environment Day 2006. The Green Run was flagged off by Sri. Nagulapalli Srikanth, Municipal Commissioner, Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation office

Competition on developing new products from waste

Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps organized a competition for youth below 18 years of age to design, develop innovative useful products/articles from household waste like plastics, polythene covers, old cloths or any other material that is not in use. As per the rules of the competition the candidates provided the information about the raw material used and the total expenditure involved in making the product. Selected products were displayed at a function organized on the occasion of World Environment Day on 5th June 2006. Prizes were given away to the best eight entries by Gali Udaya Kumar, Project Officer, Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps.

Say no to plastic

As part of the series of awareness programmes, Municipal Corporation of Greater Visakhapatnam in association with Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps has organized a workshop on the theme ‘Say No To Plastics’ on 8 May 2006.

Dr.Dhavala Bhaskara Rao, Assistant Medical Officer of Health, Municipal Corporation, in his inaugural speech stressed the need for strict implementation of carry bags ban by the traders in the city.

Sri Gali Udaya Kumar, Project Officer, Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps has made a multi media presentation on life cycle analysis of plastics, their impact on environment and the alternative life styles to be followed.

Traders from different parts of Visakhapatnam, particularly from hotels, bakeries, fast food centers and food stalls have attended the workshop and shared their experiences regarding consumer response in implementation of plastic carry bags ban. Sri Janardhan, Food Inspector has coordinated the programme.

Earth Day 2006

Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps in association with Municipal Corporation of Greater Visakha has organized a rally to observe Earth Day on 22 April 2006. The rally was flagged off by Sri Muralidhar Reddy, Additional Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Visakhapatnam. Environmental Education Workshop on 'Say No To Plastics' was organized as part of the programme. Sri Srinivas, Project Director, UCD; Sri M.S.Raju, Chief Medical Officer; Sri Vijaya Kumar; Dr.Dhavala Bhaskara rao, Assistant Medical Officer of Health; Sri Gali Udaya Kumar, Project Officer, Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps; Sanitory and Health Inspectors of the Corporation, Teachers from Municipal schools have participated in the programme.

Summer Camps

Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps in association with Jawahar Bala Bhavan is organizing summer camps in Visakhapatnam. The camps start on 22 April 2006 ( The Earth Day) and conclude on 5 June 2006 (World environment Day).

Training

To effectively guide the students in their activities, a two-tier training programme is conducted. First, the master trainers (one or two from each district) are trained, who in turn, train the teachers in-charge of ecoclubs in each district. These school and college teachers are the backbone of this student-based programme. Every year there are refresher programmes and interaction meets for these Green Teachers to address the most topical environmental issues.
Considering that environmental education is now limited to conceptual learning and memorising facts, it may not lead to behavioral change. The training programmes conducted as part of the National Green Corps focus on learning the methods for adopting new behavior patterns directly and inculcating habits for promoting environmental conservation.
The focus of teacher training in NGC is on
Topical Environmental Issues of concern.
Action plan to address issues
Organising programmes
Behavioural elements of organisation
Dealing with Students
Dealing with other teammates in the committee in each participating educational institution.

Themes
Household garbage management
Hospital waste disposal
Water pollution, shortage and conservation
Air Pollution
Civic amenities and their care
School and community plantation
Cleanliness of public parks and gardens
Cleanliness and composing at vegetable and fruit markets
Cleanliness at Bus stands and Railway Stations
Development of Eco friendly habits and behaviour
Study and conservation of Eco systems.
Discovery and documentation of the role of local biodiversity
Fuel, energy and resource conservation

NGC and Curriculum

All NGC activity targets the students. The content analysis of the textbooks reveals that there are some topical and extremely environmentally important items in the curriculum. The learning of these items will neither be long lasting nor effective without activities and action programmes. The National Green Corps activity in-fact supplements the curriculum. Learning without behavioral modification or without habit formation is futile, especially in the field of environmental protection and conservation.
The Supreme Court order 860/91 has, in fact, come as a helping hand for us. The Court ordered that the school curriculum has to have the environmental component. It instructed the National Council for Educational Research and Training, New Delhi to study the syllabi of various classes and incorporate changes to facilitate environmental education in schools. The NCERT came up with a sensitively worked out syllabus for all classes upto X. It even worked out the teaching methodologies and likely outcome of such activities.
As schools grappled with the new subject, APNGC realised the need to provide proper published material to support all activity towards environment education. Several schools approached us for the material.
Realising the urgency and the fact that all hard work done so far will be lost if the ship of environment education is left rudderless without any written material to fall back on, APNGC came up with activity books for all classes from Class I to Class X. These books aim to help children understand their environment more sensitively. They aim to make the students want to take care of their environment.APNGC has also brought out literature for college students. The reading material published is in the form of orientation books and activity booklets for graduate study streams and for students of law, medicine, engineering and education. Written material is also planned for students of management, agriculture and other streams.

How Can One Become A NGC Member

Any student can become a member of NGC. Once you are in the NGC team of your class, school or college, you are a NGC member.
However, if your school or college is not a 'Green school', meaning if it is not a member of NGC, you can go to your teacher or headmistress. You can tell them why you want your school to become a Green school, why you want to become a fellow of the NGC group. Convince them that all of us have to work to save our environment. APNGC is only a focal point for all such activity in the student community in the state.
Ours is a movement. Our goal is to sensitize others, be they in our class, school, college or in the community at large. We will bring about a change in people's attitude. Attitudinal change will, eventually, lead to action. Agreed, the road is full of bumps, stiff opposition or even cynicism may stare us in the face, but we know we shall together make things happen!

College NGC

There should be NGC units in each of the classes in colleges too. If it is a college offering different courses of study, it should have a NGC unit for each of the courses and if there are sections of classes, there should be a unit in each of these sections.
Each unit may have 5-10 members for each theme number of students in each class. The membership could be rolling, new set of students included every two months, so that all students are oriented and sensitized towards environmental issues.
Initially, simple themes could be worked out for students to get used to the sensitized ideology. These students could work on any or all of the five themes of air, water, land, energy and beautification apart from bringing the awareness in the public about the cleanliness in the temples and during the pilgrims, at public places, like parks, museums, etc.
A college NGC unit could be formed with about 50 -100 students picked up from different classes. Each course, class and section should be included in it. It will work under the guidance of five NGC College teachers selected based of their inclination towards environmental work by the head of the college. At the top of this unit will be the head of the institution.
The college unit will oversee the work done by the various NGC units in each of the classes in the institution. The college unit will also set certain works/goals for the different class NGC units every month. It has to also keep the tempo of environmental activity in the college at an active level, always providing it with motivation, direction and thrust.
The gamut of activity that could be taken up may range from a campaign for cleanliness at public places to a campaign to save our temple environs from plastics. Spreading messages for changing attitudes towards celebrating our festivals like a noiseless but bright Deepawali, college students can reach out to the community. Their energy, enthusiasm and motivation will go a long way in persuading people towards environmental action.In professional colleges, students could take up projects for study that involve environmental implications. This will help them mould their actions as a professional once they enter the field.

Krishna Degree College

Eco Club Core team:

Vishnu, Anvesh, Nagendra, NVV Prasad, Y.Pratap, G.Nanda Kishore, N.Srinivasa reddy, K.Ramaraju, Shyam Kumar, D.Praveen, KVV Vishnu Kiran, Ch.Rajesh, L.Sudhakar, Vinodh Kumar, Ch.Bhaskar, Sk Mahaboob Jani, J.Ganesh, Y.Krishna Shekhar, Abhay Shankar, D.Joseph Swarup, S.Appa Rao, K.Srinivas, A.Srinivas, B.Surya Prakash, Ch.Hari Raju, K.Ram BabuM.Dhananjay Rao, V.Anupam Kumar

K.Lashya, K.Sirisha Devi, R.Saadhya, NB Haritha, B.Rama Lakshmi, R.Tejovathy, J.Swapna Latha, P.Katyayani, J.Bala Tripura Sundari, Ch.Bala, S.Saraswathi, S.Satyavathi, P.Swathi, R.Himasri, L.Durga Bhavani, N.Padma, M.Sunila

Swami Vivekananda Degree College, Visakha

Eco Club Core Team:
Uma Katyayani, M.Sneha Latha, D.Sudha Bharati, Ch.Santhoshi Roopa, P.Tulasi, P.Devi, G.Bharathi, G.Divya, P.Nagamani, M.Vasanthi, Y.Tejaswini Reddy, L.Sri Laxmi, MD Shabana Begum, T.Bharathi, A.Gowri Priya, K.Chaya Devi
Ch.Surya Prakash, P.Sri Vikram, A.Nageswara rao, N.Arun Nehru, B.Rama Rao, V.Santhosh Kumar, p.Mahesh, T.Hari Krishna, N.Ravi Kiran

Mahathi Degree College, NAD Road, Vizag

Eco Club Core Team:

M.Rajini, Ruchi Jain, M.Usha rani, Shabeena Rahimany, P.Soujanya, N.Sree Latha, A.Haritha, Y.V.Ratnavani, jaya Sree, P.Pavani Lakshmi, M.Surya Kumari, Ch.Saritha, A.Santhosh Kumari, D.Lakshmi
D.Vara Prasad, M.Prasad, B.Narendra, P.Ratna Prasad, A.Appala Naidu, T.Phani Kumar Varma, N.Sudhakar, D.Bala Teja Varma, J.Ramana, K.Siva

Sri Venkateswara Arts and Science Degree College

Environment Education Programme for Students of Graduation was organized at Sri Venkateswara Arts and Science Degree College, NAD Road, Visakhapatnam. Sri Gali Udaya Kumar, Consultant of Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps has facilitated the programme. Sri Manohar, Chemistry Lecturer has attended the meeting. As part of the programme an Ecoclub was initiated in the college. The following students have come forward to be the core team of the Eco Club and take the responsibility of promoting environment conservation activities.

The Core Team:
B.Durga Prasad, I.Jaya Krishna, I. Durga Vara Prasad, P.Chandra Shekhar, M.Eswara Rao, D.Suresh, G.Sheshu, S.Murali Krishna, I.Jagadees Babu, B.Srinu, R.Suresh, K.Vinay Kumar, RSV Naresh Naidu, N.Rajesh, V.Pradeep, K.Ramesh, B.Satya Narayana, M.Jagadeesh, M.Ramachandra Rao, VT Mahendra Varma, NVS Sudheer, J.Ravi Kiran, VT Gowri, R.Asha Rani, PL Madhavi, N.Swapna Sri, M.Sowjanya, K.Vanaja, Sk.Afeeja, N.Surya Prabha, S.Rama Laxmi, A.Saritha, Y.Apprna Madhuri, T.Sharmila, K.Indira, T.Sowmya, VM Padma, Ch.Bhagya Lakshmi, V.Keerthi, Ch.V.Sailaja

Buddha Ramesh Babu Memorial Degree College, Vishakhapatnam

Environment Education Programme for Students of Graduation was organized at Buddha Ramesh Babu Memorial Degree College, Kancharapalem, Vishakhapatnam. Sri Gali Udaya Kumar, Consultant of Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps has facilitated the programme. Sri A.Raja Babu, Principal and other Lecturers have attended the meeting. As part of the programme an Ecoclub was initiated in the college. The following students have come forward to be the core team of the Eco Club and take the responsibility of promoting environment conservation activities.

The core team:
P.Soma Sekhar, D.Jyothi, Sadhiq Unnisa, N.Vahini, G.Sunanda, B.Anjali, S.Leela, S.Jaya, Gowri, N.Surya Kumari, MA Laxmana Rao, SSS Siva, D.Chandar Rao, Shiva, P.Madhava Rao, B.Karuna

ACTS Degree College, Visakhapatnam

Environment Education Programme for Students of Graduation was organized at ACTS Degree College, MVP Colony, Visakhapatnam. Sri Gali Udaya Kumar, Consultant of Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps has facilitated the programme and Sri. A.Subba Rao, Principal of the college has attended the meeting. As part of the programme an Ecvoclub was initiated in the college. The following students have come forward to be the core team of the Eco Club and take the responsibility of promoting environment conservation activities.

The core team:
N.Yadagiri, K.Sandeep, BL Vinod, GRK Durga Prasad, G.Uma Deepthi, Venkat

Vidvan Degree College, Bobbili

Gali Udaya Kumar, Consultant, National Green Corps has addressed the degree students participated in the Environment Education Programme organized at Vidvan Degree College, Bobbili.

NGC Eco Club Core Team
Chokkapu Rama Krushna, Srungarapu Vasanta Kumar, Karakavalasa Chakradhara Patnaik, Devakoti Eswara Rao, Marisarla Appala Naidu, P.Ganesh, Galavilli Ravi, Allu Madhava Rao, Kondeti Vijay Kumar, N. Ganapati Rao, G. Ganapati Rao, D.Prabhakar Rao, G.Appala Naidu