Undergraduate Internship on Yamuna River Exploration: Raising Awareness about SDG6

Sunita Gupta, Parul Kulshreshtha (), Divya Aggarwal and Deuvshree Sharma
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Sunita Gupta: Department of Zoology, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, Raja Garden, New Delhi 110027, India
Parul Kulshreshtha: Department of Zoology, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, Raja Garden, New Delhi 110027, India
Divya Aggarwal: Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
Deuvshree Sharma: Air Quality Management Division, Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi 110032, India

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-16

Abstract: A semester-long internship was designed for undergraduate students at the University of Delhi, India. Teams comprising 30 students from all over the University were trained to carry out field exploration activities on the Yamuna River flowing in Delhi. The students were provided with portable kits to measure the physicochemical parameters at a selected bank of the Yamuna River. Students documented the invertebrate fauna in the riparian zone of the banks. At the same time, they noted the anthropogenic polluting activities on the bank of the Yamuna River. This internship educated students about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They all studied Ecology and Environmental Science in their undergraduate curriculum, but they all confessed that they were unaware of the 17 SDGs and the deteriorating health of the Yamuna River in the city. We educated students about the freshwater emergency recovery plan and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of ecosystems. This internship is a great example of an undergraduate-directed study or research experience that supported student constructivism and inquiry-based learning, and this research article elaborates on student reports and situational interest in freshwater biology to achieve SDG6.

Keywords: SDG6; Yamuna River pollution; undergraduate directed study; ecology; non-chordata (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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