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What if a section assemblage readying to amended cultivation productivity successful its limits knew wherever precisely the ungraded was the astir fertile to alteration speedy and astute determination making connected wherever and which crops to plant? Or if it could put successful a large infrastructure improvement task assured that the tract determination was not prone to flooding?
In Attingal municipality successful Kerala, this has been made imaginable done an atlas ‘Resource Maps for Urban Planning – Attingal municipality.’ What makes this atlas caller is that it is not the result of an administrative exercise. The 26 thematic maps successful it are the effect of a pupil participatory attack to section readying and catastrophe preparedness successful a measurement towards a sustainable aboriginal for the municipality.
The inaugural stems from an world maestro program prepared for Geography astatine Government Model Boys’ Vocational and Higher Secondary School, Attingal, for the existent world year. The maestro program ‘School field shaping learning experiences: A geographical exploration’ details the learning experiences imaginable connected the schoolhouse field for the higher secondary students who survey Physical Geography successful Plus One and Human Geography successful Plus Two.
Courtesy the efforts of their teacher S. Suresh Kumar, this experiential learning was applied to real-life situations successful the municipality to travel up with an fantabulous exemplary wherever students tin lend to section improvement and catastrophe managment.
One of the activities successful the maestro program progressive postulation of ungraded samples from the field and knowing its characteristics utilizing pH meters. The students were taught however to usage a mobile app ‘Mannu’ was utilized to cross-check their findings. Then, it was clip to instrumentality this cognition extracurricular the field and usage it to cod ungraded samples from wards successful Attingal municipality utilizing GPS, crippled it connected a map, and recognize the ungraded quality successful the wards.
Mr. Suresh Kumar says the flood hazard scale representation for the municipality, a captious constituent of the atlas, was inspired by the ‘Risk Informed School Map’ task of the Samagra Shiksha Kerala that is assisted by UNICEF. The flood hazard scale was calculated for each 31 wards successful the municipality and past mapped with the enactment of the Institute for Climate Change Studies to assistance technological readying of infrastructure projects and amended catastrophe preparedness.
A acceptable reckoner for planning
If each section bodies are to travel retired with specified thematic maps done a pupil participatory approach, it volition beryllium imaginable to make a spatial information slope that tin beryllium published arsenic a acceptable reckoner for usage during the readying process, points retired Mr. Suresh Kumar, terming it a imaginable exemplary for the country.
Kerala’s Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty released the assets representation atlas and the world maestro program astatine his authoritative residence connected Wednesday.
