- SDG 14 is ‘Life Below Water :Plastic pollution. Increasing levels of debris in the world’s oceans are having a major environmental and economic impact. Marine debris impacts biodiversity through entanglement or ingestion
- SDG 14 is ‘Life Below Water :Coastal waters are deteriorating due to pollution and eutrophication. Without concerted efforts, coastal eutrophication is expected to increase in 20 percent of large marine ecosystems by 2050.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Ocean acidification has increased significantly in recent decades. Open Ocean sites show current levels of acidity have increased by 26 per cent since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Oceans absorb about 30 per cent of carbon dioxide produced by humans, buffering the impacts of global warming.
- SDG 14 is Life Below Water :Oceans provide key natural resources including food, medicines, biofuels and other products. They help with the breakdown and removal of waste and pollution, and their coastal ecosystems act as buf
Jigyasa- An Opportunity For The Students
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JIGYASA-AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE STUDENTS
On 6th July the central government launched a program called JIGYASA. It is a student and Scientist connecting program launched for the welfare of the students. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Human Resource department. In order to implement the program the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) collaborated with Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, this program connects both the school students and their teachers. JIGYASA is about to tie-up with 1151 Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan with 38 national laboratories of CSIR to connect 100000 students and 1000 teachers annually.
The main objective of this program is to connect student and the Scientist to make their classroom for both learning and researching the new innovative ideas. The student and teachers can learn both theory and practical concepts of learning with the help of Council of the scientific and industrial research lab and they can also make their own projects with the guidance of Scientists. The Scientists will be a teacher by teaching the science by visiting the schools and also implementing science and maths teaching clubs to make learning fun.
The students with their innovative Science projects can demonstrate in the National Children’s Science Congress. There is also apprenticeship and workshop program for the students and teachers. It is the most initiative step taken by the CSIR and the Government in National level at the platinum jubilee celebration of CSIR to develop the young researchers to bring their ideas.
The JIGYASA will be extended to other institutions in the future. This is one of the steps of the new India to engage students in research. School students of today will be tomorrow’s Scientists, Engineers, Doctors and Entrepreneurs so the students should engage themselves in this program to show their talents by realizing their potentials. They should accept the challenge and show their confidence to dream high.
The JIGYASA will be a good experience and authentic environment for the passionate student in the nation by motivating teachers and Scientist focusing on Scientific research with real experiments. Science is not about smartness it’s about learning to utilize the nearby sources to create the best result which can change the life of a common people.
Balaji R IMIA027