What are Green Skills? Highlight its importance for India. Also list out important steps taken by the government in this regard.
What are Green Skills? Highlight its importance for India. Also list out important steps taken by the government in this regard.
Green Skills:
- Green skills are those skills needed to adapt products, services and processes to climate change and the related environmental requirements and regulations.
- These skills are required in areas such as Renewable energy, Wastewater treatment, Climate resilient cities, Green construction, Solid waste management etc.
Importance of Green Skills for India:
- To fulfill our commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement.
- To tap the demographic dividend and to create adequate employment opportunities.
- The green skilled youth can contribute progressively towards wildlife conservation and forestry management.
- It is crucial for making a transition from an energy and emission intensive economy to cleaner and greener production and service patterns.
- Our pollution control expertise will get augmented.
- India can effectively meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
Government steps in this regard:
1. Green Skill Development Programme:
- A total of 5 lakh 60 thousand people will be imparted training between 2018-19 and 2020-21.
- The government has identified 35 courses including pollution monitoring (air/water/noise/soil), effluent treatment plant operation, forest management, water budgeting etc. under this programme.
2. National Green Corps: is a programme covering around 1 lakh schools in India. Environmental activities like afforestation, compositing are being taught to school children under this programme.
Conclusion:
Thus it is clear that equipping the Indians with the green skills is imperative to make India really green.
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