New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to incorporate ‘water conservation’ as a chapter in all academic subjects amid heightened concerns over the fast depletion of the natural resource in the country.
At an event on Saturday, CBSE chairman Anita Karwal listed out the following initiatives they would take at the school level to build a water conservation movement.
Under the ‘conserve blue to stay green’ initiative…
1. Every child in CBSE schools from class V to XII will save at least one litre of water every day at home and at schools.
2. All CBSE schools to become water-efficient in the next three years.
3. Every school to conduct water surveys.
4. Water awareness and conservation will be taught as a chapter in all subjects.
The Jal Shakti Ministry will coordinate with CBSE to take the mission forward.
The schemes will be implemented on a mission mode, the CBSE chairman said. Recent studies have suggested that major Indian cities would run out of water in near future unless urgent measures are initiated to mitigate the issue.
The mitigation strategy should start from the home itself and with the little ones through awareness and sensitisation drives, the CBSE chairman said.
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