Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Mar 16: Director School Education (DSE), Dr Shah Faesal launched specially designed WWF Conservation Leadership Programme for the educational institutions of Ladakh at DIET, here.
The project will be jointly implemented by WWF, Education Department and Department of Wildlife Protection.
The objective of this project is to build conservation leadership amongst school students through on-ground action and by raising awareness about environment conservation. The project aims to develop conservation leaders from Ladakh for future conservation initiatives in the region. The project has a very special focus on capacity building of teachers and district level education authorities to facilitate active implementation of Environment Education in selected schools of Leh and Kargil.
Another very important feature of this programme is a radio campaign by the school students which will benefit all the school children of Ladakh.
After the launch of the project, a two days teacher training workshop also started at DIET Leh in which 150 teachers from various educational institutions of Ladakh and master trainers of DIET Leh participated.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Faesal said that Ladakh is the best place to initiate such a programme on pilot basis and hoped that at a later stage similar programme also needs to be initiated in Kashmir and in Jammu.
He said that nature is a open laboratory for the students and such projects play a vital role in connecting students with nature. He said that present time is high time when we should draw lessons from past wherein we had many stories in our culture which directly connect us with nature. He called up the teachers and trainers present on the occasion to come up with publications of such stories as students very easily learn from such stories.
Deputy commissioner Leh Parsana Ramaswamy was the guest of honour at the project launch event, who while speaking assured his full support for the proper implementation of this project.
A specially designed resource kit with three books for the school children of Ladakh was also released by the dignitaries present at the project launch event.
Among others present were Jigmet Takpa, CCF Wildlife, Radhika Suri, Director Education, WWF, Principal DIET Leh, Chief Education Officer Leh, Principals of various educational institutions and ZEOs from various parts of Ladakh.
The programme was coordinated by Dr Pankaj Chandan, Team Leader, Western Himalayas Landscape of WWF-India.
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