WORKSHOPS ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AT IIMs
The Ministry of Environment and
Forests, in association with the All India Council of Technical
Education (AICTE) is sponsoring Orientation Workshops on Integrating
Environmental management in the curriculum of Management Schools
for the faculty of AICTE approved institutions. These workshops
would aim at sensitizing the faculty who, in turn, will have to
sensitize the student-managers in matters concerning environmental
issues. It would also fulfil the commitment made by the Government
to the Supreme Court in a public interest litigation "M.C.Mehta
Vs. Union of India." The Ministry has identified the Institute
of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad, the Indian Institute
of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and the IIM, Bangalore as Resource
Centres for conducting these workshops, preparing study materials
and for faculty development in the area of Environmental Management.
This is for the first time that the Ministry of Environment and
Forests, Academia, Corporate Sector, NGOs and the AICTE are coming
together to deliberate on issues concerning the role of each sector
in managing the problems of environmental damage and resource
depletion. It may be recalled that the Corporate sector has an
important role in this matter because they create many environmental
problems and the solution also thereby lies with them.
