Dear Students
The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.†-John Paul II The above quoted adage gives a concise account of how we are ravaging our resources implying that our survival is under threat from the augmented loss of biodiversity, pollution and climate change. To promote deeper understanding of environmental issues and problem solving, environmental education has been made mandatory and integral component of formal education in one form or the other for more than a decade. The department of environmental science is very passionate about environmental education and considers empowering students as extremely important; we believe educating them is a great privilege that brings with it a huge sense of responsibility. Our students form an amalgam coming from a variety of academic streams like arts, commerce and science that requires an intellectual ecosystem which our department provides to enables them to acquire knowledge and skills necessary to promote environmental stewardship. Although the pandemic has gripped everyone with fear and uncertainty. Surely, there is not a family that has not suffered the effects of the huge magnitude of the onslaught of COVID-19 and its innumerable variants. However, at these uncertain times we remain steadfast is our commitment to serve our students by imparting quality environmental education through whatever means possible. The Department is operating virtual labs and engaging more and more students in interaction viz-a-viz google meet and wise app for regular classwork. Also in-person interactive classwork is carried out in staggered manner in lieu with the government notification issued from time to time. The mission of our department is to inculcate responsibility towards improving environment and to instil simple living, quality life and eco-centric approach among our student brigade. I am proud and privileged to have a young and committed team of well experienced and learned faculty to take this mission forward. Prof. Shazia Habib Head Of Department
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Year of Establishment: 2004 History of the department: In a first Environmental Studies was introduced in the college as compulsory module in 2004. This was in response to a Supreme Court Order obtained by M.C Mehta in 2003, who had filed a PIL in Supreme Court of India in 1991 regarding introduction of compulsory environmental education in Schools, Colleges and Universities. Since then Environmental Studies is taught as compulsory module in the college and whose syllabus and content is regulated by UGC from time to time. From 2004-2016, department was run by contract faculties under the aegis of Department of Botany. In 2017 our college got the first batch of full time faculty in Environmental Science. In 2018 Department of Environmental science took a big leap by introducing Environmental Science as a core subject at under graduate level and subsequently a laboratory was established in the department to augment teaching. The aim of our department is to develop a the knowledge base about our ecological system and the attitude, motivation and commitment to work individually and collectively towards solutions of current environmental problems and prevention of new ones. Our faculty is actively involved in several community outreach programs. The Department has organized several field trips, webinars/seminars and workshops to raise awareness about various environmental issues.
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