AHMEDABAD: The Centre for Environment Education (CEE) on Tuesday felicitated 15 schools, 11 teachers and 16 students at the national level with Paryavaran Mitra 2013 awards at a ceremony held on the campus. Ashok Khosla, director of Infoterra at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), was the chief guest.
Kartikeya Sarabhai, director of CEE, said that it is an initiative to fuse the green education with the current curriculum. "With the coverage of 2 lakh schools in India, we have been able to reach out to around 1.5 crore students who have got engaged in the activities to conserve environment," he said. Paryavaran Mitra is a national initiative by CEE in partnership with the ministry of environment, forests and climate change, to inculcate sensitivity towards environment among students.
CEE officials said that they had started the engagement with the schools at the start of last year where they were given five broad categories to work in — Biodiversity and Greening, Energy, Culture and Heritage, Waste Management, and Water and Sanitation.
FD High School and HB Kapadia New High School were two schools from the state among the 15 schools that got the citation. Likewise, four students and one teacher from the state were among the finalists from across India.
The students who won the citations had addressed issues such as air pollution, sanitation, water cleanliness, recycled paper, bird conservation, eco-friendly Ganesha idols and prevention of food wastage.
