Incorporation of Solid Waste Management Skills in the Education Curriculum of India for a sustainable Environment and Economic Effectiveness

Project Report from the year 2018 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Environmental Studies, grade: A, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, course: PhD Education, language: English, abstract: Education of the people globally is expected to help solve societal and environmental problems, improve, and manage way of life. However, solid waste management has become a challenge in many countries not excluding India despite intensive education. Solid waste in India has been considered as low priority and is causing unsustainable environment. A well designed education curriculum for the people can help best manage solid waste even though it is unavoidable. This study seeks to incorporate the lapses of solid waste management skills: handling, collecting, disposing, storage, transporting, recycling, dumping etc. in the Secondary and senior Secondary education curriculum of India as compulsory and suggest to the stakeholders' most appropriate solid waste management skills to be provided by the Secondary and senior Secondary curriculum of India. At the Secondary level curriculum, these skills are missing from Social Science syllabus and not well detail in the Environmental Science of the Senior Secondary level curriculum. In all the population selected for the eight towns, Forty interviews will be conducted in each of the towns and eight hundred questionnaires will be issued out using random sampling technique. One hundred questionnaires will be administered to the respondents in each of the towns: Goraya and Philour of Jalandhar District, Khaira and Samrala of Ludhiana District, Phagwara and Sultanpru of Kapurthala, and Shahid Bhagat Singh, all in the Punjab State; students, teachers, workers of waste management organizations, and education experts. Much is happening internationally to promote environmental education. The scares resources, vast increasing population, rapid urbanization, and increasing global industrialization have called for protection of the environment through education. Environmental education can be defined as 'process of providing learning experiences to obtain knowledge, understanding, skills, and awareness with desirable attitudinal changes about man's relationship with his natural and man-made surroundings'. Protection of public health and environment from bad condition must be responsibility of everyone because it enhances reduction or elimination of adverse negative impacts on the environment and human health, supports economic development and improved quality of life.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Year DegreeInstituteCGPA / Percentage 2018-21PhD ( Education)Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, IndiaPursuing 6.89 (on-going) 2012-14M.Tech. Ed (Construction Tech)University of Education, Winneba, Ghana3.00 2008-10B.Ed Technical (Const Tech) University of Education, Winneba, Ghana3.25 2005-06Certificate In EducationUniversity of Education, Winneba, Ghana2.97 1997-00 HND Building Technology Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi Ghana 3.20 RESEARCH WORK 1. Assessing the Application of ICT and Its Impact on Teaching and Learning Building Construction at the Senior High Schools in Ghana. Data was Collected and Analyzed from Fifteen Selected Senior High Schools in the Kumasi Metropolis. Research work Submitted to University of Education, Winneba, Ghana for the award of M.Tech. Edu, 2014. 2.Investigating into Health Hazards on Building Construction Sites in Ghana (A Study of Twenty Selected Sites in the Kumasi Metropolis). Research Work Submitted to the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana for the award of B.Ed, 2010 3.Design for Construction of A Proposed Guest House for Western Regional Sports Council, Ghana. Technical Investigation was carried out for Proper Design for Construction of the Proposed Guest for Council and Submitted to Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana as a Student In 2000. POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITIES District Coordinator for SSNIT & Private Schools, District Education Office Ahafo Ano North Dist. Ghana 2014-2015 District Coordinator for IPPD, District Education Office, Ahafo Ano North Dist. Ghana 2011- 2014 District Vocational/Technical Coordinator, District Education Office, Ahafo Ano North, Tepa-Ashanti, Ghana 2010 -2011 Community Service/ Participation Sunday School Superintendent for My Father's House Assemblies of God, Dunkwa on Offin, Ghana Assistant Schools Coordinator, Assemblies of God Campus Ministry (AGCM-K), University of Education, Winneba-Kumasi Branch, Ghana. 2009 - 2010 Skills: Hardworking, Highly Dynamic and Self-motivating, Good Interpersonal Relationship, dependable, analyst, innovative, very good in Research Works, and excellent in handwriting, Good Microsoft, Power Point Presentation, Excel, and AutoCAD. Nationality : Ghanaian