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Development of Education System

Notes 32.3 Summary

• The system of education in which education is carried out in accordance with some established
or prescribed rules, is called as Formal Education System. In India, the formal education is
the mandate of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD).
• These people can be motivated through proper formal education to take actions for
environment.
• A course module has been prepared by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
in India, under the direction of the Ministry of Human Resources Development for
Environmental Appreciation Courses.
• Concepts in Management and Business Studies: The Central Ministry of Human Resources
Development, Government of India launched an initiative in the year 2002, through which it
integrated the environmental concepts and issues in the syllabi of Management and Business
Studies. Accordingly, the experts were assigned duties to examine the course content and to
conduct workshops to sensitize the faculty of Management Colleges towards the issues of
environment.
• The system of education in which education is carried out without any pre-established and
prescribed rules and the body concerned with educating the public is free to design the
course module, the activity schedule or the programme concerning environmental awareness,
is called as Non- Formal Education.
• The Non-Formal Environmental Education for building of Environmental Awareness is
imparted through various means like- through Eco- clubs, Population Education Programmes,
Environmental Campaigns, and through other means.
• An eco-club is a group of people who meet at regular intervals for planning, designing and
implementing activities for generating awareness among masses and for identifying and
solving ecological problems at the local levels.
• The National Green Corps: The Ministry of Environment and Forest started National Green
Corps (NGC) Programme in the year 2001 - 02. The objective of this National Programme is
to generate Environmental Awareness amongst school children through establishment of
Eco-clubs in all the districts of different states and Union Territories of India.
• Educating students about human population; relationships between economic, social, cultural
and biological processes that influence a population; impacts of the growth of human
population on these processes, and Reproductive Health of men and women - is called as
population education.
• A series of planned activities that are intended to achieve a particular social, commercial or
political aim- is called as a campaign.
• Campaigns in environmental context are intended to generate awareness regarding the urgent
needs of the conservation of environment and its resources as well as to take up appropriate
steps through different activities for the recovery of the lost health of environment of a
particular area or locality. Environmental Awareness Campaigns are very important for
generating awareness regarding the actual status of various resources of the natural
environment.
• The Multi-media Campaign launched during the mid-1986 by the Ministry for Environment
and Forest, Government of India, for the generation of environmental awareness with active
components for the recovery of the lost health of environment is called as National
Environmental Awareness Campaign.
• Under the NEAC nominal financial assistance is provided to registered NGOs , schools,
colleges, universities, research institutions, women and youth organizations, army units,
state governments' departments etc. through Nodal Agencies.
• The institutions that receive financial assistance for conducting Programmes under the NEAC,
disseminate information through various types of activities. Most of these activities are
seminars, workshops, training programmes, camps, pad- yatras, rallies, public meetings,
exhibitions.

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