Children's Movement for Civic Awareness (CMCA)
Children’s Movement for Civic Awareness [CMCA]
This is a civic club programme for students of std VIII as a part of the SUPW classes [Socially Useful Productive Work]. This programme is co-ordinated with the help of an NGO. A representation or co-ordinator visits the school every Monday and engages the students of std VIII in a 40 minutes session. News of the activity of the CMCA programmes are featured in the monthly Newsletters of the School.
Some of the aspects that are discussed are
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Active and responsible citizenship
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Civic Sense
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Rights and duties of a citizen
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RTI – Right to Information Act
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What it means and how it can be used.
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Compiling a school profile [where students collect data about water resources and usage in school, electricity , greenery on the campus, waste management and so on]
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Making suggestions if any to the School based on the School profile
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Constitution
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Judiciary
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Democracy
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Traffic Rules
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Local Government
They also conduct some campaigns such as :
Road Safety Awareness
Eco Deepavali
Eco Ganesha