CSE launches teachers' network to check air, water pollution

A green body today launched a teachers' network to generate interests among students and teachers in environmental studies and come out with a better curriculum.
Around 100 teachers from universities and colleges from across India attended the Green Educators' Knowledge Conclave, organised by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
The teachers maintained that a lot of ground needed to be covered on environmental studies as a curriculum in educational institutions and rued lack of usable content to teach the students effectively.
"College students should monitor the environment - particularly air and water - and create maps which identify polluted areas. The teachers will play the role of multipliers and help in getting knowledge on environment across to more and more students," CSE director-general Sunita Narain said during the launch of Green Educators' Network.

Elaborating about the network, CSE said it is a nationwide movement to build a committed network of colleges, faculty and young minds to enable them to make informed choices on issues of environment and development of this country.
"We believe that the heart of learning is the connection between different stakeholders of the environment. Through this network, CSE will bring together these actors and the university community to interact with each other to foster a better understanding of the challenges that the environment faces today," said Ranjita Menon, director of CSE's Environment Education Unit.