Puranchandra Vidya Niketan, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Located in a urban, densely populated part of Kanpur the school has persistently assessed their environmental practices since 2007. The audit teams recorded little change in the initial years of the programme. This years stock taking by students reported rapid and drastic change, the reason why they are here. In comparison to their last year they: reuse 15,000 litres more waste water for irrigation house more number of plant and animal species have stopped using artificial pesticides segregate and reuse recycle double the quantity of solid waste
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Allons Public School, Durg, Chattisgarh
A residential school in a remote part of Chattisgarh entered the green school ranks last year. The innovative rainwater harvesting technique of bunding fields (since they have cultivable area in the school) baffled the audience last year. This year they have improved their practices in the following ways:
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BCM Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, Punjab
One of the BCM group of schools in Punjab. The Ludhiana branch had won several laurels for their green work in the previous years. Inspired by them the school got associated with GSP in 2009. Their last years report was fair but not good enough to win them an award. This year the school community worked hard and managed to:
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St. Stephens School, Togan, Chandigarh
Located on the outskirts of Chandigarh the school community got recognised as a Best Manager in 2009 for reusing 100 per cent of their waste water reuse potential. Then on the management of the school and the student/teachers community have jointly worked to put in place green schools practices in place that are hard to emulate. You have seen their work at the begining of the programme. The school has managed to match the ideal standards set by GSP in the water and land chapter.
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Vidya Niketan English Medium School, Pune, Maharashtra
The school participated in the green schools programme last year and earned itself a rank for amongst new schools for managing its water, air, land, energy and waste reasonably well in comparison to levels established by competing schools. This year the school has show remarkable improvement in changing its communities commuting practices. More number of people now come by public transport or by walk. The vehicles of the school are also better managed in terms of their mileage and passenger capacity. They now segregate and recycle more quantity and types of solid waste in comparison to last year.
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JUSCO school, Kadma, Jharkhand
The school has been participating in the green schools programme since many years. The amount of change they have been able to bring about in their practices related to the environment has been steady over the years. This year they have been able to change practices in the two most persistent problem areas which are air and land. In fact in the other areas the school community has slightly slacked. They have been able to influence the commuting practices of students and teachers considerably. Now more students and teachers come by walk or public transport than ever before. Their land now houses more plant and animal species than ever before. They have also been able to nip the use artificial pesticides.
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Government Senior Secondary School, Dentam, West Sikkim
A rural school in the scenic landscape of Sikkim the school took stock of its practices related to environment in 2008. They silently worked for two years and are now back with a bang. The school has shown remarkable improvement in all areas except energy which was good enough since the begining. Though it has taken the school two years it has managed to improve its performance on almost all indicators of the green schools programme in the areas of water, air, land and waste. For instance from zero the school has been able to use 50 per cent of its rainwater harvesting and waste water reuse potential (7200 litres).
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Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Deorali, East Sikkim
This semi-urban school from the capital city of Sikkim, Gangtok has been a part of green schools programme earlier. Like the Dentam school they also have take time to bring drastic change in their resource management practices. Considering that most parts of Sikkim are rich in natural resources than it is indeed commendable that these schools are working so hard to improve their environment related practices. The school community has completely overhauled its commuting practices in favour of walking to school. Proximity to the main city also enables them to reuse / recycle more solid waste.
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Pragyan School, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
The school is from a satellite town of Delhi. They have been consistently participating the in green schools programme for a few years without cutting much ground in terms of changing their practices. Last year the schools persistence paid off. With cooperation from the management, school community brought rapid and far reaching changes in areas of water, air, energy and waste. The school now uses water within GSP limits. It harvests its entire rainwater now in comparison to 0 litres last time. The enthusiastic teacher and students say next year they will focus on waste water reuse. Commuting, Energy conservation, solid waste management practices have been overhauled completely.
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Kendriy Vidyalaya No. 1, Uppal, Hyderabad
The Kendrirya Vidyalaya Sangathan operated school from sub-urbs of Hyderabad stormed the ranks as a new school last year at the very top. The level it started with was remarkably high in comparison to participating schools. Though they did not have much room, with their dedication and persistence they have been able to improve their practices further in the areas of land and energy and waste. Though their practices have also slacked slightly in relation to water and air. Their students have spoken to you at the begining of this programme.
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Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Palampur, District - Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
Ms. Rajni Negi the eco-club in-charge teacher of the school says that the students of the school made it a personal issue when their school was not amongst the top new schools in the country last year. They were very confident of their work but they had very less time last year. She says the students did not cease the activity after July last year. The result of this ceaseless effort is that they have been able to bring a bewildering 100 points, 28 per cent improvement from last year. They reuse more waste water, more children come by walk to school, the school has more species of identified plants and animal species and more solid waste is segregated and recycled / reused then ever before. The children have left no stone unturned to match the ideal practices indicated in the green schools programme manual. They have even taken their work to the community around their school.
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National New Schools
DRV DAV Centenary Public School, Phillaur, Punjab
A new school from Punjab. The students and teachers shared interesting experiences they had during the green schools audit. They say that the audit added meaning to many routine practices that they never thought have any connection to the environment they have around them. They say that Phillaur is a green city and there school is probably the greenest institution in the city but they never knew what there greenery constituted off, they never thought about the oldest tree in school till the green schools programme came around.
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Government Girls High School, Kazibazar, Cuttack, Orissa
The first school from Odisha to win the green schools awards. The students of the school say that they were very confident of doing well in the programme since there school had won many national and international competitions previously. But, it to our utter astonishment the calculated data gave us a different picture that was not adequate for the said purpose. This gave us a big jolt at that moment and made us realize that much more needs to be done for sustaining our very lives. This experience gave us a lesson which not only got rid of our complacency but also made us aware that environmental activities are not one time act rather this has to be a continuous and comprehensive endeavor for sustainability.
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Assam Valley School, Balipara, Assam
This is what Vidit Patni class IX wrote when we requested them to share interesting experiences about the programme, "One day, many of our group members got together and dug compost pits behind all the four boys' hostels. While digging these pits, all of us were covered from head to toe in mud. We even had a mud fight! We thoroughly enjoyed it. Recently, as I was taking a walk, I went to see the pit behind our hostel and found it covered with weeds which I removed".
Keshab Bajaj class XI C wrote "We had great experience while working in the CSE Green School Programme.We worked with great zeal to see our school as Green School. Working in the energy audit was an eye opener for us, we learned a lot about data collection and calculation.It taught us that present data is as important as the data of the previous year. It was also shocking to find the level of energy consume in our school. Educating the utility workers of the school was a great experience. The question which they asked us was simple but it was very significant to the environment".
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GAIL DAV Public School, Dibiyapur, Uttar Pradesh
The state of Uttar Pradesh has surprised us this year with not one but two schools that have done commendable work. The school is a typical industrial township school. The infrastructure management and provision is a part of GAIL Pata Petrochemical Complex. The school submitted very convincing listing of support documents - Air consent, Water consent, Bio-medical waste authorisation, Environment statement, Water cess report, Water cess bill and Environment monitoring report. The students who participated in the audit feel that though they live in a clean and green environment the audit helped them get a different perspective on the definition of what the word green means.
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Government High School, Dasgrain, Ropar, Punjab
Mr. Foran Chand Sharma (teacher in-charge) says: "Students went through various experiences while undertaking this project they got a lot of knowledge & information regarding the scientific names of the plants and animals. Earlier they were not interested to stare & gaze these objects. But when they were made participants of this programmes their outlook changed a lot. They now have developed an outlook to examine & study each & everything minutely".
Their earlier attitude. “ I have nothing to do with whatever is going on “ has been replaced by “I should improve & change whatever wrong is going on”.
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KV Air Force School, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
A new central school from Andhra Pradesh. My colleague Ajanta Sikdar had visited the school during her stay in Hyderabad recently. She believes that the school community takes their water and land very seriously. The school community has already gone an extra mile to conserve their water, energy and land. They already put in a lot of effort in segregating and recycling their solid waste. Being a neighbourhoods school most of the people walk or cycle to school. The green schools programme has enabled them to take stock of how much they have already achieved and how much ground still needs to be covered.
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Sri Venkateshwar International School, Dwarka, Delhi
Government Senior Secondary School, Tingley, South Sikkim
The sensitivity the people of Sikkim have towards their environment is not surprising since they are a small hill state in the fragile himalayan ecosystem. The people of Sikkim are struggling to develop rapidly without endangering the balance of their ecosystem. The new generation of the state needs to learn how they can maintain a healthy relationship with their environment as they rapidly urbanise and develop. The medium and dimensions of their relationship with environment is what the green schools programme enables the students to understand says Mr. Ashish Pradhan the teacher in-charge of the eco-club.
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Government High School, Baloh, District Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh
It is sometimes hard to imagine how a two day interaction with one teacher and two students from the school can lead to such an accurate report. The difference with the state of Himachal Pradesh is that the Sate Council for Science Technology and Environment is investing heavily in training of students. The teacher from the school Mr. Som Dev Nadda says that the students managed to infuse their enthusiasm and sense about the programme amongst their colleagues and that is what led to successful completion of the audit.
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Government Senior Secondary School, Khalet, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
No frills when it comes to presentation of the report but the accuracy and strength of information the students have managed to gather is phenomenal. Ms. Neelam (teacher) says that for students it was surprising to know that how the sanitation facility is linked to per capita water consumption? By looking at the per capita consumption one could actually draw a picture of what will be the state of toilets in a school. The students now know why the toilets in their school, especially WCs can't be kept clean simply because they are overloaded.
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