Youth & Eco Club
From zonal training halls to school compost pits, a state-wide look at how Manipur's schools took up the work of environmental awareness, waste reduction and peer-led learning under Mission LiFE.
Scheme Overview
497
schools reached in the district-level awareness drive
17
Zonal Education Offices covered state-wide
57
upper-primary schools trained in peer learning
₹1.02 Cr
invested across the year's programmes
A Year of Small Hands, Growing Green:
Manipur's Youth and Eco Club programme is the state's school-level vehicle for Mission LiFE — the national call to turn everyday student behaviour into climate action. Over 2024–25, Samagra Shiksha Manipur ran the programme as a chain of linked activities: awareness first, then competition, then recognition, then peer-led follow-through — reaching zonal offices, individual schools and, ultimately, students making their own products out of waste.
What follows is that year in sequence — the awareness programmes that opened it, the waste-to-product competitions and Green School Awards that rewarded it, the Earth Day and peer-learning initiatives that carried it into 2025, and the funding that made each stage possible.
Aug – Sep 2024
Carrying the Programme to Every Zone:
State Project Office, Imphal → all 17 Zonal Education Offices
The year opened with a one-day State-Level Awareness Programme on 24 August 2024, held at the Conference Hall of the State Project Office. Every Zonal Education Officer (or in-charge) and District Coordinator for Youth & Eco Club attended, briefed on the proper implementation of the club and Mission LiFE for the year ahead.
Each ZEO then carried the same brief down to their own zone. District-level awareness programmes on Mission LiFE and Eco Club implementation followed across 497 schools, with four teachers selected from every school — including sessions in Imphal West, Imphal East, Kakching, Ukhrul, Thoubal and Churachandpur.
₹0.93L state-level programme cost
₹180 per teacher, district level
4 teachers selected per school
Sep – Oct 2024
Turning Waste into a Made Thing:
Fund of ₹28,44,000 (₹1,500 per stand-alone school) and ₹14,91,000 (₹3,000 per Upper Primary school) was released to schools to run their own Eco Club activities. The centrepiece was a competition set under the theme "Reduce Waste Materials" — students making products out of waste at the school and district level.
Each district selected its best three candidates, separately for Primary and Upper Primary, and sent them forward to the State-Level Competition and Prize Distribution Programme on 24 October 2024. Five districts — Jiribam, Churachandpur, Pherzawl, Tamenglong and Kangpokpi — took part through online mode.
₹43.35L released to schools for Eco Club activities
₹6L each — state competition, Stand-alone & UP
3 winners per category, per district
22 April 2025
The Best Green School Awards:
Earth Day 2025 · Conference Hall, SPO Samagra Shiksha
Running since 2023–24, the Green School Award recognizes schools for their work on environment, biodiversity, local ecology, nutrition, sanitation and hygiene. Selection weighs a functional Eco-Club, adherence to the Eco-Calendar, innovative measures, results in inter-school competition, and participation in summer camps and Shiksha Saptah.
The 2024–25 awards were presented on Earth Day, 22 April 2025.
Best Green School Awards, 2024–25
- Sagolband Popular UPS — Zone I, Imphal West
- Laishram Deva HS — Imphal East District
- Kumbi Sandhong UPS — Bishnupur District
₹5.55L unit cost of the award programme
22 – 30 Apr 2025
QR Codes for Flora:
A DoSEL, Ministry of Education initiative, delivered through Eco Club for Mission LiFE
To mark Earth Day, schools across Manipur ran — tagging campus plants with scannable codes to build digital proficiency alongside Mission LiFE's environmental objectives. Alongside it, schools held a pledge against single-use plastic, vermicomposting workshops, compost-pit construction, tree and bottle planting, cleanliness drives and sessions on renewable energy.
Schools were judged on the number of activities run, participation across the full 22–30 April window, the State Monitoring Committee's report, and the quality of documentation. The three best-performing schools will receive cash prizes, certificates and mementos, tentatively on 4 December 2025.
Best three performing schools — Earth Day 2025
- Khunthoknganbi UPS — Zone I, Imphal West
- Kakching Higher Secondary School
- KakchingWangjing High School — Thoubal
Mar – May 2025
Peer Learning Programme:
City Convention, Imphal → 57 schools across five districts
Peer learning puts students in charge of teaching each other — building collaboration, problem-solving, communication and independent thinking through structured interaction between classmates. Samagra Shiksha piloted it at the Upper Primary level (classes VI–VIII), training two teachers each from 57 selected schools across Bishnupur, Imphal East, Imphal West, Kakching and Thoubal, over two phases: 3–6 March and 10–13 March 2025.
School-level implementation began on 3 April 2025. Each selected school received ₹10,000 to run inter-school peer learning activity, with nearby selected schools paired together for the purpose. A twelve-member State Monitoring Committee, formed on 7 April 2025, tracked the roll-out, and a one-day review meeting followed on 5 May 2025.
₹9.29L state-level capacity building
₹10,000 per school, inter-school activity
₹1.71L monitoring, ₹3,000/school
12 members, State Monitoring Committee
2024–25
Backing it With Classroom Material:
Developed by Ed-First (Education for Innovation and Research for Students and Teachers), New Delhi
To give peer learning a fixed structure in the classroom, activity-based lesson plans were developed and printed for English and Social Science, classes VI, VII and VIII — the same Upper Primary cohort at the centre of the peer learning pilot.
The Year, by the Numbers:
Every figure below is the unit cost or fund release stated against each activity — set out together, they show where the year's Youth & Eco Club budget actually went.
One programme, Run in the Open:
From a single conference hall in Imphal to compost pits and QR-tagged plants in nearly 500 schools, the Youth & Eco Club's work this year traces a simple line: teach it, let students make something of it, recognise the ones who did it well, and hand the next round to the students themselves.
