India, May 7 -- Stressing on encouraging environmental accountability at the school level, the Gautam Budh Nagar's district inspector of schools (DIOS) in a fresh directive to all government aided, private unaided, and board-affiliated schools has asked to immediately form environmental committees, officials said on Tuesday.

The latest instruction follows repeated directives issued since mid-December last year, and schools' inaction on earlier instructions.

In an official letter, DIOS Dharmveer Singh referred to earlier communications - dated December 12, January 18, and March 26-citing a resolution passed during a district-level Ganga Committee meeting chaired by the district magistrate Manish Kumar Verma, when it was decided that ever...