To train teachers in schools along the Cooum River, CRRT to conduct workshop
Posted on: 04/Sep/2018 9:43:39 AM
On 7th September 2018, Chennai River Restoration Trust or CRRT would conduct a workshop for the teacher coordinators of the schools that are present along the Cooum River. This workshop would take place at the Vepery based Bentinck Higher Secondary School for Girls from morning 9:30 am to evening 3:30 pm.
The workshop titled ‘Integrated Cooum River Eco-Restoration Project’ would be organised in association with the National Green Corps and Eco-clubs. It is well known that this National Green Corps is a programme of the ministry of environment plus the forests of government of India. It covers as many as 120,000 schools located in India with NGC School Eco-clubs. There are 30 to 50 NGC students or NGC cadets present in each NGC School Eco-club and they form the National Green Corps. There are various activities the NGC students take part and these are biodiversity conservation, water conservation, energy conservation, waste management, land use planning and resource management etc.
The above mentioned workshop would sensitise school on river restoration and protection and CRRT has now invited the schools located along the Cooum River. In the month of November in the year 2016, a sensitization workshop for the coordinators took place and it is clear that this upcoming workshop would be the second level of training. It is known that solid wastes and sewage gets dumped into the Cooum River. Now CRRT would play its role in creating awareness on protecting the river by stopping the disposal of solid wastes and sewage into the river.
Indiscriminate emptying of sewage by tankers into the Cooum River has been creating many issues for the people. This CRRT would also look to increase the participation of the community to monitor this indiscriminate emptying of sewage by the tankers into the river. In the year 2006, the government of TN formed a trust named APT or Adyar Poonga Trust. This trust was formed to develop an eco-park in the 58 acres of Adyar creek. It is worthy to mention that later it was renamed as CRRT or Chennai River Restoration Trust. This CRRT is wholly owned by the government of Tamil Nadu.
