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The schools filled the form citing their
initiatives along with pictures as evidence
of the efforts. The team visited the short-
listed schools to verify their claims. It was
an arduous task to finalize the winners as
every school had an environment friendly
approach discernible not only in infrastructure
but also in their curricula. Having working
paper recycling units, adoption of plants
by the students, formation of green
brigade/warriors, making hanging bird
nests, to using industrial exhausts to
reduce the temperature were some of the GSKV B3 Paschim Vihar
initiatives noticed by the team.
The team while visiting the schools butterfly gardens, to a school having
focused on interacting with the students raised ground water level using rain
to understand their involvement as leaders water conservation, to the school involving
in all the sustainable practices of the their alumni in the process, the effort was
schools. worth it. After a tough and tedious
From the schools being able to produce process the final schools were selected for
surplus electricity, to the schools having the awards as below in respective categories:-

Winners of Delhi Green School Award

S. No Name of the school Government Aided

Big 1 Kerala Sr. Sec. School, Vikaspuri
1 Bal Bharti Public School, Pitampura 2 SSLT Gujarat Sr. Sec. School, Civil Lines
2 Birla Vidya Niketan, Pushp Vihar 3 Balwant Rai Mehta Vidya Bhawan
3 Airforce Bal Bharti School, Lodhi ,Lajpat Nagar
Road
Government (Big)
Medium 1 SBV, West Vinod Nagar
1 Modern School, Barakhamba Road 2 SKV ,Burari
2 SpringDales School, 3 S(Co-ed) Vidyalaya, Chitranjan
Pusa Road Park, (Shyama Prasad Mukharjee)
3 Tagore International School, East of
Kailash Medium
1 BRD SKV, Prasad Nagar
Small 2 SKV, B- 3, Paschim Vihar
1 Colonel Satsangi's Kiran Memorial 3 S (Co-ed) SSS, Munirka Village
Public School, Satbari
2 Navjeewan Model School, Vishnu Small
Garden 1 SoSE, Madanpur Khadar, JJ Colony
3 Cambridge Public School, New 2 GBSSS, No. 2, D -Block, Janakpuri
Friends Colony 3 GGSSS , Sector- 25, Rohini

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