School of Environmetal Science Involvement in Outreach program

On 8 August 2006, SES took initiative with Vasant Valley School to hold a one day workshop of environmental issues for science teachers from schools located in Delhi and Chandigarh. The theme of the program was, "Environmental Pollution and Innovative Methods of Estimate Various Levels of Pollutants". The workshop was coordinated by Ms. Malvika Vohra (Vasant Valley School) and Prof. Arun K. Attri (School of Environmental Sciences). The efforts were strongly encouraged by Arun Kapur (Director, Vasant Valley School) and Prof. V.K. Jain (Dean, SES).

Environmental issues cover the contemporary global, regional and local concerns impacting the Earth's atmosphere, water, spoil and society. The need to invoke appreciation and sensitivity towards sustainable usage of natural resources and energy was imparted. Detailed protocols relating to many simple experiments, within the limited resources available with the Delhi schools' laboratories were presented in the workshop. The resource base participation from SES consisted of Dr. S. Mukherjee, Dr. A.L. Ramanathan, Dr. Krishan Kumar and Prof. Arun K. Attri. Mr. Jill Carr Harris (Executive Director, Lead India) introduced same social dimensions of Environmental concern. Experimental details were presented by Ms. Chubamenla Jamir and Ms. Kamna Sachdeva (Ph.D. Students, SES).

(Prof. V.K. Jain, Dean, School of Environmental Sciences)