Runners up: Government Secondary School, Daramdin, Sikkim

Green schools award 2007

The top 20 performers received the awards from Professor Krishna Kumar, Director, NCERT.

Rank 1:
Government Secondary School, Boormajra, Ropar, Punjab
This school is a winner, second time round. In 2006, the team beat all other contenders in the fray by presenting remarkably precise audit documents.

In 2007, these students and teachers of Boormajra have outdone themselves. They have produced minutely detailed information, not only on water, but on land, air and energy, as well.

The school has been able to grasp the real message of the Gobar Times Green Schools Programme- adopting sustainable practices to improve the school’s performance. During this year it has set up a rainwater harvesting system (sourcing funds from the state government), thus improving its performance as a ‘conserver’ considerably.


Rank 2:
Government Secondary School, Daramdin, Sikkim
A first timer, it has made a place for itself right at the top of the list. This is no mean feat, considering that it is a rural school, tucked in a remote corner of South Sikkim.

Every time a package—carrying documents—had to be dispatched to Delhi, the teacher concerned had to travel 25 km up the hilly terrain to reach the only post office which offers Speed Post facility in the neighbourhood.

The school has two drinking water taps. To measure per capita consumption of water, the audit team put two 250 ml tumblers near the taps, and made each student count the number of times they drank water from these glasses.

The school’s data was extremely well tabulated and researched, thus strengthening it’s position even more.


Rank 3:
Apeejay School, Pitampura, New Delhi
It did not feature among the toppers in 2006. But the school hit the jackpot this year.

Its water audit included monitoring of overhead tanks. The catchment areas where rain fell were physically measured by children using a measuring tape.

The energy audit was a masterpiece as the school conducted audit for the past two years and allotted points for each month.

Best Students’ Audit Team Award
Apeejay School picked up this one as well. Students ranging from Class VI to Class XI formed the audit teams.

They were divided into five teams namely Water, Air, Land, Energy and Waste just like the five chapters of the Green Schools Programme Manual. But interestingly, these teams were further subdivided. For example the energy team had three sub –groups on Electricity, CNG and Diesel, each assigned to monitor the usage of that particular form of energy.

While in most schools, the students were involved more in data collection and less in calculating the actual scores, Apeejay was an exception. The audit team readily participated in calculations. Often number crunching was done on blackboards, collectively.

Best Teachers’ Team Award
Vishwabharati School, Noida (U.P) received the Best Teachers’ Team Award. The teachers here have worked with their students to turn in immaculate data sheets. But their most exceptional quality was their honesty. After the entire survey was over, in certain sections CSE proposed that they should calculate the marks they had given themselves again, as they had done better than many other participants. But these teachers refused to take credits for what they considered an ‘imperfect job’.

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