Nellore, March 10: M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, will be conducting a Vocation Training programme for students of Class X between May 3 and 29, 2010.

Students will be exposed to a variety of topics in the broad area of biotechnology and biodiversity conservation during the four weeks programme which is a residential workshop.

- Film and forest visit on cards for 50 selected students
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The entrance to Dalma forest

Jamshedpur, March 5: Students of government schools in Dalma will soon learn about the environment by visiting forests and watching films.

D. Radhakrishnan

Thirty-six children benefit from a special camp at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

Aaranyak, CEE North-East, Institution of Engineers, Assam State Centre, and Regional Centre of Expertise, Guwahati Centre, jointly organised a district-level programme for the eco-clubs of Kamrup (Metro) district recently. The programme was held on Pragjyotish School, Boragaon premises.

Indian schools seem to be coming of age environmentally and the real action in environment activism is not happening in the elite, upmarket schools but rather it is the semi-urban and middle-rung schools that have donned the mantle of being

Asking people to opt for public transport, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit today said her government will develop more cycling and walking tracks across the city as part of its eco-friendly initiatives.

Two South Delhi schools

Going green: Children of DAV Public School (Thermal Colony) at Panipat in Haryana celebrate the Green School Award for 2009 they received from Sharmila Tagore in Delhi on Saturday.

Stealing the show from the so-called elite institutions, schools from across the country on Saturday vied for honours to clinch who was the 'greenest of all' at the Green Schools Awards. Emerging as real change-makers, the annual environmental audit of schools under the aegis of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), over 5,000 schools participated in the event.