The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will start optional bee-keeping classes for its school students from December. The civic body said that the aim of the initiative is to promote apiculture (the technique of rearing bees).
The NDMC said that a feasibility study for the project was done and they have also shortlisted three parks, out of which one will be selected for setting up a laboratory, bee boxes and conducting classes.
According to NDMC officials, this will be first such initiative in the national capital. They, however, said that such experiments were successfully carried out earlier in Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
RP Gupta, NDMC’s director education, said that the aim of the project was to encourage classes in the open, and promote bee-keeping and gardening as a hobby among students.
“Other than a hobby, bee-keeping will help in increasing students’ employability. Special classes will be started for this course. These classes will not be conducted in the school premises, but in the natural environment at the place where lab will be set up. These special classes will be of six weeks to 10 weeks’ duration and one batch will be of 38 to 40 students. No extra fee will be charged from the students to join this training,” Gupta said.
Read more of this initiative in a report by Ashish Mishra published in Hindustan Times... (Link given below)
