School GIS (click for detail) Schools have an important responsibility to introduce environmental education. GIS can be an important tool for visualising the environment in relevant layers. More importantly it can be an active learning environment, where students and teachers can not only consume information but actually produce knowledge, feel proud and engage collaboratively across schools breaking the barriers of language.

NCERT article (click for detail) Indian wisdom has always perceived human beings as an integral and central constituent of nature. Man's desire for a long, healthy, enlightened and joyful life has made him invoke the forces and elements of nature, usually in a deified form, to bless him and his progeny. Logically, therefore, loving, understanding, fearing and befriending nature, not conquering, exploiting or defiling it, was a general way of living in ancient India. The following wish occurring in the Rigveda unambiguously proves this man-nature relationship.

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