New Delhi: One hundred six schools from across India were certified ‘green’ here at a ceremony conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment’s Green School Programme. Of these, 19 schools received the topmost Annual Green School Awards for their exemplary initiatives in making their campuses environment-friendly and their students, environment-conscious.
Apart from the schools, awards were also conferred on the most proactive teachers, the “Best State” and “Best District” etc. CSE director general Sunita Narain and executive director Jagdeep Gupta handed out the awards to the winners.
The awards, given every year by CSE, are based on an exhaustive and rigorous annual audit of resource management and environment-friendly practices within the school campuses; this audit is conducted by the schools themselves with CSE’s help.
Himachal Pradesh bagged the award for the ‘Best State’ with the highest audit registrations and report submissions. 114 schools from the state submitted their audit reports – nine were rated ‘green’. Solan in Himachal Pradesh bagged the Best District Award with 61 submissions and six schools rated ‘green’.
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