Education and training helps to broaden the horizon of the management practitioners and facilitates the movement of Services in consonance with scientific principles. Forestry and Environmental Education is of paramount importance and should be comprehensive and practical, embracing all the facts of the numerous problems faced.
The Environment Education and Training Scheme of the Ministry is meant for creating environmental awareness. Under this scheme, various progammes are conducted every year for creating environmental awareness both through non-formal activities as well as through formal education system. While the programmes like National Environment Awareness Campaign (NEAC), National Green Corps (NGC), use of electronic media etc. fall in the non-formal sector, the Ministry’s initiative of taking up a pilot project for strengthening environmental concepts in the school curriculum and the linked Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) programme use the formal education system for conveying the message.