CBSE Asks Schools To Ensure Students Save One Litre Water Every Day At Home And School
The Central Board of Secondary Education has directed schools to ensure that every student saves one litre of water every day at home and school. To make schools and students proactively participate in the Jal Shakti Abhiyaan the CBSE has also directed them to mandatorily create eco clubs.
In a welcome move, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has directed schools to ensure that every student saves one litre of water every day at home and school.
To make schools and students proactively participate in the Jal Shakti Abhiyaan, the CBSE has also directed schools to mandatorily create eco clubs and also strengthen the existing ones.
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"While eco clubs would continue to promote environment and climate literacy and motivate learners to become champions for environmental sustainability, the thrust of this year's co-curricular activities from primary to senior secondary will be on water conservation. For the academic year 2019-20 CBSE schools will necessarily follow an agenda," CBSE Chairperson Anita Karwal said.
"It will be ensured that every child in class 5 to 12 saves one litre of water every day at home and in school. All affiliated schools will set a target to become water efficient schools in the next three years," she added.
Last week, CBSE was in the news for raising the exam fee students from Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) appearing in the board's examination. The fees was hiked 24 times while those from the general category will have to cough up double the current sum.
Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students will have to pay ?1,200 as their board exam fee as against a paltry ?50 for the same for five subjects earlier.
The fee has doubled for general category students to ?1,500 from ?750 and will remain the same for both Class 10 and Class 12 board exams.
(With agency inputs)
