Skip to main content

ENVIRONMENT AND ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION

By

SEMESTER – II

Note: 

The syllabus has 15 topics to be covered in 25-hour lectures in total, with 2 lectures in each topic from 2 to 11 and one each for the topics 1 and 12 to 15.

1. Environment Concept: Introduction, the concept of biosphere – lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere; Natural resources – their need and types; Principles and scope of Ecology; concepts of the ecosystem, population, community, biotic interactions, biomes, ecological succession.

2. Atmosphere: Parts of atmosphere, components of air; pollution, pollutants, their sources, permissible limits, risks and possible control measures.

3. Hydrosphere: Types of aquatic systems; Major sources (including ground water) and uses of water, problems of the hydrosphere, fresh water shortage; pollution and pollutants of water, permissible limits, risks and possible control measures.

4. Lithosphere: Earth crust, soil – a life support system, its texture, types, components, pollution and pollutants, reasons of soil erosion and possible control measures.

5. Forests: Concept of forests and plantations, types of vegetation and forests, factors governing vegetation, a role of trees and forests in the environment, various forestry programmes of the Govt. of India, Urban Forests, Chipko Andolan.



6. Conservation of Environment: The concepts of conservation and sustainable development, why to conserve, aims and objectives of conservation, policies of conservation; conservation of life support systems – soil, water, air, wildlife, forests.

7. Management of Solid Waste: Merits and demerits of different ways of solid waste management– open dumping, landfill, incineration, resource reduction, recycling and reuse, vermicomposting and vermiculture, organic farming.

8. Indoor Environment: Pollutants and contaminants of the in-house environment; problems of the environment linked to urban and rural lifestyles; possible adulterants of the food; uses and harms of plastics and polyethene; hazardous chemicals, solvents and cosmetics.


9. Global Environmental Issues: Global concern, a creation of UNEP; Conventions on climate change, Convention on biodiversity; Stratospheric ozone depletion, dangers associated and possible solutions.

10. Indian Laws on Environment: Indian laws pertaining to Environmental protection: Environment (Protection) Act, 1986; General information about laws relating to control of air, water and noise pollution. What to do to seek redressal.

11. Biodiversity: What is biodiversity, levels and types of biodiversity, an importance of biodiversity, causes of its loss, how to check its loss; Hotspot zones of the world and India, Biodiversity Act, 2002.

12. Noise and Microbial Pollution: Pollution due to noise and microbes and their effects.
For Full Syllabus-Click here
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Thanks for the comment and don't forget to subscribe.

Popular posts from this blog

CAREER OPTIONS AFTER BCA

By
Career Options after BCA There are several doors opened, once you are done with your bachelor's in computer application(BCA).Apart from MCA or MBA in IT , one can also go for :  Masters in Computer Management  Masters Degree in Information Management (MIM)  Master of Science in Information Technology (M.Sc IT)  G-CAT Master  Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Applications  Post Graduate Program in Corporate Studies (PGPCS)  Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PGDM)  Program in Information Security Management  If one wants to get recruited and desires to be the part of corporate sector....there are numerous options for that too. One can work as a software developer, web developer, graphic Designer, App Developer for
4 comments
Read more

PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS & MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SYLLABUS

By
Computer Graphics SECTION-A  1. A Survey of Computer Graphics : Computer Aided Design, Presentation Graphics, Computer art, Entertainment, Education and Training, Visualization, Image Pressing, Graphical User Interfaces. 2. Overview of Graphics Systems : Video Display Devices, Raster Scan Systems, Random Scan Systems. Coloring technique : Beam Penetration, Shadow Mask. Graphics Monitors:Plasma Panel, LED,LCD. Properties of Display Devices : Persistence , Resolution, Aspect Ratio. and Workstations, Input Devices, Hard-copy devices, Graphics Software. Interactive Graphics, Passive Graphics. SECTION-B  3. Studying the Features and Developing Computer Graphics Using Standard Graphics packages like Auto CAD and Photoscape. AutoCAD: Features, Workspace, Commands to draw line, Polyline, rectangle, polygon, circle, spline, hatch; Modification Commands: Erase, copy, move, mirror, scale, Pan, Zoom, ESC, cl, trim; Layer, Dimension, image rotation, area calculati...
1 comment
Read more

PRESENTATION GUIDE

By
General Guidelines for Successful PowerPoint Presentations  Components of the presentation : Title  Introduction  Overview  Body  Conclusion  References  Speaker  Contact Information  KEEP IT SIMPLE  U should start by telling the Topic of Presentation.  Show only one message per slide. If you have more than one message, add a slide.  Limit the amount of text on each slide - no one wants to read a whole article during your presentation. 
1 comment
Read more