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Uttarakhand Environmental Education Centre (UEEC) |
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The Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi is a public charitable trust founded in 1967. In 1987 it was appointed a nodal agency by the Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India to undertake locale-specific environmental education programmes both in rural schools and villages in the hill districts of Uttar Pradesh, now Uttarakhand. In 1993 the trust's buildings, staff and programmes were all consolidated under the Uttarakhand Environmental Education Centre (UEEC). In Hindi the Centre is known as the Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan (USNPSS), a registered non-profit society. USNPSS received the Ninth Mahaveer Award (2003) for excellence in the sphere of Education and Medicine on 14 February 2005. The selection jury for the award was chaired by Justice M. N. Venkatachalliah, former Chief Justice of India, and USNPSS was one for the three awardees out of 212 nominations. StaffUttarakhand Environmental Education Centre
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