GREEN TEACHER’S TRAINING PROGRAMME
27th - 28th November, 2014 | Forest Conference Hall
ENVIS Centre at Forests, Environment & Wildlife Management Department, Government of Sikkim organized a Two-Day Green Teacher’s Training programme on 27th and 28th of November 2014 at Forest Conference Hall in Deorali, Gangtok as an initiative towards strengthening the National Green Corps (NGC) programme being implemented in Sikkim. The inaugural session of the programme was chaired by the Hon’ble Minister Forest Shri Tshering Wangdi Lepcha, PCCF-cum-Principal Secretary Dr. Thomas Chandy IFS, CCF (T/ HQ) Shri C. S. Rao IFS and CCF/ OSD (Environment) –cum- Programme Coordinator (ENVIS) Shri B.K.Tewari.
During the inauguration of this two-day training programme for the 200 green teachers from all districts of the State, the Hon’ble Minister Forests released a booklet published by ENVIS Sikkim titled ‘ECO-CLUB HANDBOOK’ and also felicitated three schools namely Namchi Government Girls’ Senior Secondary School, Melli Gumpa Government Secondary School and Lower Samdong Government Secondary School with Paryavaran Mitra Puraskar which included trophies and certificates under the best schools category as conferred by Centre for Environment Education (CEE) North-East. The Hon’ble Minister also handed away a token grant of Rs. 2500/- each to the participating school as Eco-Club grant sanctioned by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India under the National Green Corps Programme 2014-15.
The training programme organized in collaboration with the MoEF&CC’s Centre of Excellence the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) from the North-East was held to provide basic guidelines to the Green Teachers or the Teacher In-Charge of the School to undertake Eco-Club activities in their respective schools under the NGC programme. The resource persons from CEE Guwahati office Miss Himashree Bhattarcharya and CEE Gangtok office Miss Meghna Thapa imparted the training to the participating 200 green teachers selected from the Jr. High School level from all districts.
The training was conducted in two batches in which 100 green teachers from North and East Districts were trained in the first day and another batch of 100 green teachers from South and West Districts on the second day. The training was conducted in an interactive manner with role plays, eco-games, group discussions, AV shows and understandings on the basic needs and wants of the human nature and actions on ways to promote environment awareness and education amongst the school children for environment sustainability.
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