India, April 15 -- Aimed at sensitising students to challenges such as plastic waste, biodiversity loss, air pollution and climate change, government schools in the national Capital will undertake a year-long series of awareness and activity-based programmes on environmental issues beginning this month.

According to a circular issued by the Directorate of Education (DoE), the initiative will focus on structured monthly themes, starting with awareness on plastic pollution in April.

The circular said schools will organise activities such as essay writing, painting competitions and campaigns discouraging the use of single-use plastics, along with observance of Earth Day on April 22.

It further said that May will be dedicated to wildlife a...