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Top green schools in India- 16-Feb-2017
New Delhi: A school in Punjab’s Moga, a Kendriya Vidyalaya from Hebbal in Karnataka, and a sports school from Sonipat, Haryana claimed the top honours as 2016’s ‘greenest’ schools in India.
Union human resources development minister Prakash Javadekar gave away the Green Schools Awards, instituted by the New Delhi-based research and advocacy body Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), here.
The awards are given every year after a rigorous audit of how schools are walking the talk with respect to environmental good practices and natural resource management. Every year, the audit and the awards focus on one aspect / issue of resource management – this year, the subject in the crosshairs was water and sanitation.
Giving away the awards, Javadekar commended CSE for taking environment beyond trees, tigers and textbooks and introducing school children to the real issues through its audit.
Speaking on the occasion, CSE director general Sunita Narain said: “These schools and their students and teachers come from different parts of the country -- Sikkim, Punjab, Karnataka, Jharkhand etc. But they have one thing in common: a capacity to drive change by their sheer grit, perseverance and commitment to do something for the environment.”
Ranjita Menon, programme director of CSE’s environment education unit, pointed out: “In line with the emphasis that the country is putting on sanitation, CSE’s Green Schools Programme (GSP) has made an effort this year to involve children and teachers in auditing the performance of their schools with respect to sanitation and sustainable management of water.”
The GSP audit of 2016 received more than 2,500 registrations from across India.
About 700 schools from among these 2,500 successfully completed the audit.
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