life and livelihood

During the past 25 years or so we have seen environment appear in different avatars in India’s education arena, sometimes as a handmaiden of ‘mainstream subjects’, wedged between pages of chemistry or history text books or at other times as a common theme of all extra-curricular activities as taking ‘nature walks’ in local parks to making scrap books on local fauna. But never, until now, was it a part of the formal grading system.