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[email protected] 1 Preface The Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF), Government of India, initiated a novel programme of incalculating love among the school children of our country and awareness of our environment in the year 2001. The West Bengal Pollution Control Board took the initiative to bring the schools of this State under this programme, popularly known as National Green Corps (NGC) Programme starting the year 2002-03. The activities continues unabated and with increasing enthusiasm among thousands of schools in West Bengal. This year, WBPCB itself has taken the responsibility of the Nodal Agency to implement this programme and has been able to bring 3912 schools under the NGC umbrella. The diverse and novel activities and programmes undertaken by the individual schools, District Level Programmes as well as State Level Programmes, are summarized in this report. A number of pictures depicting the activities have been included. Thanks to MoEF for giving WBPCB the opportunity to work with innumerable students of our State. 2 CONTENTS Page No Executive Summary 1 Chapter I: INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 What is NGC? 3 1.2 NGC Programme in West Bengal 4 1.3 District wise NGC School 4 1.4 Composition of State Steering Committee and District Committee 5 State Steering Committee 5 District Implementation and Monitoring