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The awards were announced during a gala event on 18 December 2008 at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The awards were divided into two categories – Top 10 New Schools and Top 10 Change Makers, which have done considerable work on improving their relationship with the environment.

The award ceremony was celebrated as a festival in which schools put up stalls, performed street plays and dances, and participated in a painting competition, green graffiti and photo gallery.

Dr. M S Swaminathan, Director MSSRF, gave away the awards to the top 10 schools in the New Schools category, while Prof. Krishna Kumar, Director NCERT, awarded the schools in the Change Makers category. Mr.R H Khwaja, Additional Secretary MoEF, gave away the special awards.

Top 10 New Schools

P T Chacko Memorial High School, Kunduthode, Kerala
Ambuja Public School, District Pali, Rajasthan
Anubhuti School, Jalgaon, Maharashtra
Woodland Overseas School, Hoshiarpur, Punjab
St Georges School, New Delhi
D.A.V Public School, Gurgaon
BCM Arya Model Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana
Salwan Public School (Afternoon), Old Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi
Sadhu Vaswani International School for Girls, New Delhi
Amity International School, Noida

Top 10 change makers

St. Pauls School, New Delhi
Pinnacle School, New Delhi
Salwan Public School, Gurgaon
Salwan Public School, Old Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi
Evergreen Public School, Vasundhara Enclave, New Delhi
Delhi Public School, Rohini, Delhi
Kerala Public School, Mango, Jamshedpur
Ahlcon International School, New Delhi
Government Senior Secondary School, Daramdin, Sikkim
Achyuth Patwardhan School, KFI Varanasi

Special Awards

Biradari Awards

The Shriram School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

Best Teachers Team award

Vishwa Bharati School, Noida

Best Students Audit Team award

Deepalaya School, Kalkaji Extension

Most Enterprising Team award

Ramjas School, Pusa Road

Best National Green Corps (NGC) state awards

Delhi and Andhra Pradesh

Winners of the painting competition

Forests: Holding The Earth Together

   1. Yogita, St. Joan’s Convent School
   2. Neha Pandey, SLS DAV Public School
   3. Sonali Gupta, St. George’s School

A World Without Oil / Fuel

   1. Sahil S Tangri, Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura
   2. Abhishek Agarwal, Salwan Public School, Gurgaon
   3. Harshit Bansal, St. Mary’s School

Garbage Monster On The Prowl: What Do We Do?

   1. Raghav Sachdeva, The Pinnacle School
   2. Sakshi Saraswat, Hans Raj Model School
   3. Priyanka Chopra, Salwan Public School, Gurgaon