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NATIONAL GREEN CORPS

We all are part of the environment where we live . Solution to many environmental problems lie in our attitude towards environment. Awareness to keep our surroundings clean or the realization to conserve natural resources by re-using and recycling wherever possible, are attitudinal. On the surface it looks simple. But changing the attitudes of 100 crores people is not going to happen overnight. The best way of attempt to bring about a change in the attitudes in the society is through children. They have no vested interests. They are impressionable. They are our future. They are the single most important influence in any family. With this realization the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India has decided to launch the National Green Corps Programme (NGC) in all Districts of our vast country.

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 & development.

To bring children into direct contact with the environmental problems facing the society they live in and make them think of solutions.

To involve children in action based programmes related to environment in their surroundings.

COVERAGE

The NGC programme is being implemented in all the sixteen districts of Chhattisgarh State from July,2002. National Green corps have been constituted in 1600 schools of 16 districts.

MEMBERSHIP

100 schools in every district of the State have been included .

In addition Kendriya Vidyalayas, Navodaya Vidyalayas; other schools under CBSE and schools under State Government have been included.

METHODOLOGY

The scheme is being operated through Eco-clubs formed in member schools.

Each such club have 30-50 children, who show interest in environmental related issues.

Each Eco-club is supervised by a Teacher In-charge, who is selected from among the teacher of the member school on the basis of his/her interest in environment related issues.

Each Eco-club is provided with a kit of resource material in the language of their preference apart from a token monetary grant of Rs. 1000/- per annum for organizing different activities (Please see the suggested list of activities)

There is a District Implementation and Monitoring Committee to supervise, organize training for In-charge teachers, and monitor periodically the implementation of scheme at the District level. In each District, the Implementation and Monitoring Committee has selected two teacher of the member school on the basis of his/her interest in environment related issues. These selected teachers have been trained by Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board

There is a State Steering Committee to oversee the implementation of the scheme.

The State Nodal Agency, Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board is coordinating the implementation of the scheme in the State and organizing related activities like training to Master Trainers etc..

The National Steering Committee is giving overall direction to the programme and ensure linkages at all levels.

ACTIVITIES FOR ECO-CLUBS

1.	Organize seminars, debates, lectures and popular talks on environmental issues in the school.
2.	Field visit to environmentally important sites including polluted and degraded sites, wildlife parks etc.
3.	Organize rallies, marches, human chains, and street theater at public places with a view to spread environmental awareness.
4.	Action based activities like tree plantation, cleanliness drives both within and out side the school campus.
5.	Grow kitchen gardens, maintain vermi-composting pits, construct water-harvesting structures in school, practice paper re-cycling etc.
6.	Prepare inventories of polluting source and forward it to enforcement agencies.
7.	Organize awareness programmes against defecation in public places, pasting posters in public places and to propagate personal hygiene habits like washing hands before meals etc.
8.	Maintenance of public places like parkes, gradens both within and outside the school campus.
9.	Mobilize action against environmentally unsound practices like garbage disposal in unauthorized places, unsafe disposal of hospital waste etc.

ROLE OF TEACHER IN-CHARGE OF ECO-CLUB

The Teacher In-charge of Eco-club plays a key role in the implementation of the scheme. He/She should encourage more and more students to join the club. He/She should take up imaginative steps to implement the activities suggested in the scheme, which are relevant to that region. Main functions of In-charge Teacher are:

1.	To assemble the Eco-club members every week for one hour at-least and tackle up some activity.
2.	To encourage the students to suggest activities for the following weeks and make a list of it. Make necessary preparations for their execution in consultation with the7 Headmaster/Principal.
3.	Send monthly activity report to the District Committee.
4.	Coordinate with the District Committee for taking up district level common programmes.

COMPOSITION & ROLE OF DISTRICT IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING COMMITTEE

(a) Composition

1.	District Collector/DM	Chairman
2.	Divisional Forest Officer	Member
3.	Regional Officer, Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board Board	Member
4.	District health Officer	Member
5.	District Education Officer	Member Secretary
	Note: District Collector may nominate any individual who is relevant to the Committee

(b) Role

1.	To identify the Member schools in consultation with State Nodal Agency and Resource Agency.
2.	To motivate Heads of schools to initiate participation in the scheme.
3.	To select Master Trainers and send them for training organized by the State Nodal Agency.
4.	To identify In-charge Teachers in consultation with School Principals and organize training for In-charge Teachers.
5.	To distribute Resource Material to In-charge Teachers at the time of their training.
6.	To identify the activities to be taken up at the District level and organize them.
7.	Coordinate, supervise and monitor the implementation of the activities by all the Eco-clubs in the district.
8.	To keep the State Nodal Agency informed of the activities undertaken by the individual schools and at the district level in the given format.
9.	To appoint the individual members as supervisors for a group of 10-15 schools and review their reports.
10.	To send the monitoring report to the State Nodal Agency as per the schedule.

COMPOSITION & ROLE OF STATE STEERING COMMITTEE

(a) Composition

1.	Additional Chief Secretary, Forest & Higher Education	Chairman
2.	Principal Secretary Department of Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe and Other Backward Classes	Member
3.	Secretary, Environment Department	Member
4.	Secretary, Higher Education Department	Member
5.	Director General, Chhattisgarh Council for Science and Technology	Member
6.	Shri Lalit Surjan, Chief Editor, Deshbandhu	Member
7.	Shri H.R. Murti, Assistant General Manager, Environment Management Department, Bhilai Steel Plant	Member
8.	Miss Ilima Sen, Surya Appartment	Member
9.	Smt. Sunita Yadav, New Rajendra Nagar, Raipur	Member
10.	Shri Satish Awate, Environment Education Department, Raipur	Member
11.	Chief Engineer and Officer on Special Duty	Member
12.	Shri Amar Prakash Sawant	Nodel Officer

(b) Role

1.	To co-ordinate implementation of the scheme.
2.	To encourage different government departments to actively help the Eco-clubs.
3.	To review periodically the implementation of the scheme and suggest activities to be taken up at District Level.
4.	To select the best district, best Eco-club and give publicity to their activities so that other districts and Eco-clubs can adopt them.

ROLE OF STATE NODAL AGENCY

1.	To nominate a Nodal Officer.
2.	To ensure identification of member schools by the District Committee in consultation with the Resource Agency.
3.	To select locally relevant resource material in consultation with the Resource Agency and get it printed.
4.	To ensure identification of Master Trainers by District Committees and organize training for them with the help of Resource Agency.
5.	To ensure training programme for In-charge Teachers in Districts.
6.	To ensure distribution of grants and resource material to Eco-clubs.
7.	To receive quarterly reports from District Committees and compile them in the form of reports and send them to Central Nodal Officer in the given format.
8.	To organize State Level activities and coordinate them.
9.	To organize publicity to the programme to encourage more schools and students to join Eco-clubs.

MONITORING

(A) PROFORMA FOR SCHOOLS

National Green Corps

Monitoring Proforma -----A (For Schools)
(To be submitted every month to the District Implementation & Monitoring Committee)
Report for the Month of ..................................., 2001/2

I. About the School

1.	Name of the School :
2.	Total Student Strength :
3.	Boys/Girls/Co-Education :
4.	Do you Have Nursery/Primary/Secondary Sections :
5.	Medium of Instruction :
6.	E- Mail Address (If Any) :

II. About the Scheme

1.	Have you Appointed the Teacher Incharge : (If Yes, give name)
2.	Has He/She attended the Orientation Programme :
3.	How Many Students are taking part in the Scheme :
4.	Break up of Girls & Boys (For Co-ed Schools)
5.	Break up of Primary/Secondary Students :
6.	Have you received Resource Material :
7.	Any suggestions for Resource Material :
8.	Have you received Grant :
9.	Have you received Caps etc :

III. Activities

Serial No.	Activity	No. of Students Participated	Date/Duration
1.	Seminar/Talk/Debate
2.	Camp/Field Visit
3.	Plantation/Cleanliness Drive
4.	Awareness by Rallies etc.
5.	Other (Specify)

Signature of Head
Date : Master/Principal with Stamp

(B) PROFORMA FOR DISTRICT IMPLEMENTATION & MONITORING COMMITTEE

National Green Corps

Monitoring Proforma -B-1 (District Level)

Activity Report

(To be submitted to the State Nodal Agency for each quarter ending in September/ December/March/June by the 15th of following month)

1.	Name of the District :
2.	Number of Participating Schools :
3.	Number of Participating Students :

I. Activities by Individual Schools

Serial No.	Activity	Number of Schools Which Conducted	No. of Students Participated
1.	Seminar/Talk/Debate
2.	Camp/Field Visit
3.	Plantation/Cleanliness Drive
4.	Awareness by Rallies etc.
5.	Others (Specify)

II. Activities Conducted by District Committee

Serial No.	Activity	No. of Schools which participated	No. of Students who Participated

III. Monitoring Status

1.	Has the Monitoring Committee met during this quarter : Yes/No
2.	Have the Committee members inspected the working of Eco-clubs in Schools : Yes/No
3.	If Yes, No. of Schools Visited :
4.	Remarks :

Signature of DEO/Member
Date : Secretary with Seal

National Green Corps

Monitoring Proforma -C-1 (State Level)

Activity Report

(To be submitted to Central Nodal Officer half - yearly in the 1st week of May &
November)

1.	Name of the State :
2.	Number of Districts covered under the Scheme :
3.	Number of participating Schools :
4.	Number of participating Students :

I. Activities by Individual Schools

Serial No.	Activity	Number of Schools Which Conducted	No. of Students Participated
1.	Seminar/Talk/Debate
2.	Camp/Field Visit
3.	Plantation/Cleanliness Drive
4.	Awareness by Rallies etc.
5.	Others (Specify)

II. Activities Conducted by District Committee

Serial No.	Activity	No. of Districts	No. of Schools which participated	No. of Students who Participated

III. Monitoring Status

1.	Has the Monitoring Committee met during this Quarter : Yes/No
2.	Have the Committee members inspected the working of Eco-clubs in Districts/ Schools : Yes/No
3.	If Yes, Number of Districts/Schools Visited :
4.	Remarks :

Signature of

Date : Nodal Officer With Seal