Saturday, 19 June 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The additional secretary of the ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Ravi Agrawal visited ENVIS (Environmental Information System) resource partner on forestry and forestry related livelihoods at Forest Research Institute here on Friday to review and monitor ongoing programmes.
Agrawal was apprised of various activities and progrmmes executed by the ENVIS-FRI. He saw various ENVIS publications and appreciated the outreach awareness programmes of the centre on various occasions involving school, college and university students. He also appreciated the implementation of Green Skill Development Programme of MoEF&CC wherein 32 GSDP training programmes were organised during financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20 by ICFRE Institutes benefiting 596 participants. He informed that the government has a target of imparting training to seven lakh participants for employment generation by the end of this financial year. He stressed over the need to increase participation of secondary level students significantly to achieve the objective of this government scheme.
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) director general and FRI director AS Rawat informed that FRI has developed new modules for Green Skill Development Programme to enhance participation and employment generation opportunities to the young generation. He said that the GSDP training programmes will be imparted by all ICFRE institutes throughout the country.
