Eco Club
Eco club is Environmental activity programme Under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. It is empowering students to explore environmental concepts and actions beyond the confines of a syllabus or curriculum. While everyone, everywhere, asserts the importance of ‘learning to live sustainably,’ environment remains a peripheral issue in the formal schooling system.
Dr. Bhavin Parmar
Coordinator
Gujarat Arts & Commerce College (Evening) had also taken an initiative to promote environmental activities with the support of National Green Corps (NGC), Gir Foundation, Gandhinagar. The Eco Club (It is also known as VAN Vihar) has been started from 2018. The Institution Eco club is empowering students to participate and take up meaningful environmental activities and projects. It is a forum through which students can reach out to influence, engage their parents and neighbourhood communities to promote sound environmental behaviour.The Institution Eco club plays an important role in creating environmental awareness amongst the future generation.
Our Motto: “Where there is Green, there is Prosperity”
Objectives
- Motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean by undertaking plantation of trees.
- Promote ethos of conservation of water by optimizing the use of water.
- Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
- To develop skills of observation, experimentation, survey, recording, analysis, reasoning needed for conserving environment through activities
- Organise seminars, debates, lectures and popular talks on environmental issues in the school to motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean.
- Promote ethos of conservation of water by optimizing the use of water and cleaning of water body in the adjacent area.
- Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
- Educate students to create awareness amongst public and sanitary workers, so as to stop the indiscriminate burning of waste which causes respiratory diseases.
- Sensitize the students to minimize the use of plastic bags, not to throw them in public places as they choke drains and sewers, cause water logging and provide breeding ground for mosquitoes.
- Organize tree plantation programmes, awareness programmes such as quiz, essay, painting competitions, rallies, Nukkad Natak etc. regarding various environmental issues and educate children about re-use of waste material & preparation of products out of waste
- Campaign against use of loud speakers, motivate students not to use crackers and fireworks, recycling of glass and metals, use of unnecessary horns.
- Field visits to environmentally important sites including polluted and degraded sites, wildlife parks, etc.
- Organise rallies, marches, human chains and street theatre at public places with a view to spread environmental awareness.
- Action based activities like tree plantation, cleanliness drives both within and outside the school campus.
- Grow kitchen gardens, maintain vermin-composting pits, construct water harvesting structures in school, practice paper recycling etc.
- Prepare inventories of polluting sources and forward it to enforcement agencies.
- Maintenance of public places like parks, gardens both within and outside the school campus.
- Mobilise action against environmentally unsound practices like garbage disposal in unauthorised places, unsafe disposal of hospital wastes etc.
- Beautify selected road side area with plants and flowers and put campaign boards to generate awareness.
- Any other innovative programme on environmental issues.
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