'Nature Vidya' Web Portal | 24 Aug 2021

On August 23, 2021, Uttarakhand's Forest and Environment Minister Harak Singh Rawat launched the 'Nature Vidya' web portal related to environmental education.

In order to overcome the shortage of environmental Hindi resources for teachers in government schools of Uttarakhand, Prakriti Vigyan Initiative (NSI) in collaboration with JBGVS has started a bilingual Hindi-English website 'Nature Vidya', which is specially designed for environmental education fulfills.
The portal provides a wide range of simple tools for nature educators to engage children outdoors, covering topics such as ecology, waste, climate change, etc.
This portal will for the first time provide sophisticated tools in Hindi to the grassroot level teachers, as well as help in any future school disruptions.
Along with this, Rawat also released a Hindi book on Peepal tree and its ecology named 'Rhasyamai Garden' written by Shruti Rao. This book helps children learn important ecological concepts by looking at trees like peepal.