The Gobar Times Green Schools Award is a platform to acknowledge and reward schools which have adopted the most innovative and effective practices to manage natural resources within their own premises. Conceptualised by the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), it is conducted at the national level every year, with schools from across India participating in the annual awards ceremony.
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The Green Schools Programme is an ‘inspection’ or ‘survey’ of the school done by its students on its environmental practices (which we call environmental auditing). The students form teams and go around the school on an exploratory journey and find out what’s happening – to the water, energy, land , air and waste in the school. How is the school managing these issues?
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It is true. The adults are often confused about what is right and what is wrong — they know too much about too many things, you see. But the younger species of the human race have no such compulsions. They make their decisions pretty fast about things they really want, and they make sure that the rest are informed about their choice.
The Green Schools Award were given away at a fun-filled ceremony at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on December 17, 2007. About 344 schools from across the nation participated, out of which 20 schools were short-listed as the top green schools of the country. Professor Krishna Kumar, Director, National Council for Education, Research and Training (NCERT) presented the awards to the top 20 Green Schools.
The first Gobar Times Green Schools Awards were given away at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on Monday, November 27, 2006. Students and teachers from various schools in Delhi and across India were present in full strength.