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Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

NGC believes in catching them young

T. Lalith Singh

Releases material for schoolchildren with messages on environment

HYDERABAD: Catchy and colourful illustrations, crisp narration and smartly woven messages on environment. Ushering in a new chapter in school education, the Andhra Pradesh National Green Corps (NGC) has come out with study material that seeks to strike roots early with children on issues related to environment.

As part of `Our World' series, NGC has launched a set of books covering a wide gamut of topics ranging from bio-diversity, water, land, waste management to being careful not to hurt the delicate eco-balance, for students of classes I to X.

Eco-friendly practises

The chapters, particularly for beginners, come in a lucid style and use rhymes and concepts that are popular with children. If it is `Mirror, mirror, on the wall, show me my eyes' under the lesson `My Body', then `Rain, rain, rain, come again and again, we need you for our crops' seeks to drive home the message on water and rains. "It aims at touching young minds to create awareness on environment and initiate small eco-friendly practises. The effort is to ensure that a student starts looking at the environment in a different way by the time he completes Class X," says NGC Director W.G. Prasanna Kumar.

For classes IX and X, environment education becomes a subject with 25 per cent marks for activity and 75 per cent marks for text, says Mr. Prasanna Kumar. The entire material has been put on the Internet and can be accessed at `www.ngc.ap.gov.in'.

Institutions interested in collecting the environment education set earlycan also contact the NGC office at Buddha Bhavan complex (Phone: 27537393), he informs.

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