National Seminar on Importance of Teaching of Environmental Awareness as a Part of Syllabi of Teacher Education

Swami Vivekananda College of Education, or SVCE, located in Goghat block of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India, at a tranquil rural agricultural belt (an area which also has the potential to develop as an agro-industrial zone), organized a One-Day National Seminar on “Importance of Teaching of Environmental Awareness as a Part of Syllabi of Teacher Education”, convened by the College Principal Dr Premananda Paul, held on 10th April 2019. About 500 participants, who included students, teachers, guests, dignitaries and resource persons, were present in the seminar. The college campus is adjacent to WB SH 2 (West Bengal State Highway 2) on the south side of the road which passes through the sub-divisional towns Arambagh in the east and Bishnupur (in Bankura district) in the west. It is situated at about 11 km west of Arambagh, 2 km east of Bengai Chowmatha, an important tetra-junction or crossing of roads on WB SH 2, and 3 km north of Goghat Railway Station. The newly established co-education college, which started admitting students in their B.Ed. and D.El.Ed. Courses since the academic session 2017-18, has created a big hope in the minds of the locals (as well as education-hungry distant people) as it fulfils their educational aspirations. The well-planned positive attitude of the management/organizers/ founders of the college is reflected in the facts that they have arranged a set of reputed teachers to teach the students (some of the students are in jobs of school teachers as well), have already set up a workable library, a furnished seminar hall (which was also the venue of the present seminar) with sitting arrangement of 400 delegates and may be extended up to 500, sufficient number of classrooms, sanitation facilities for both men and women, a reasonably big green lawn/garden whose north side faces the main road and other three sides are surrounded by the college buildings.