Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

Rajender Singh Negi OneWorld South Asia   20 December 2007 New Delhi: Located in a small hamlet in Boormajra in Punjab’s Ropar district , a government school was adjudged as India’s greenest school for the second time. The second and third prizes went to Government Secondary School, Daramdin, Sikkim and Apeejay School, Pitampura, New Delhi respectively. At a ceremony here in New Delhi on December 17, Prof Krishna Kumar , director, National Council for Educational Research and Training gave Green School Awards 2007 to all 20 schools short-listed from all over the country. Gobar Times Green School Programme (GSP) was started last year by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a non-profit organisation. Sunita Narain , director, of CSE, explained the reason behind starting the programme: “We started this programme because we very strongly believed that the environmental issue was going to be absolutely critical in India and that this issue would...

NEW DELHI : A government school at Boormajra in Punjab’s Ropar district , a rural school in a remote corner of Sikkim and one school each from Delhi and Noida have been adjudged the “greenest” in the country by the Centre for Science and Environment. These schools were conferred the Green Schools Awards-2007 at a ceremony organised here on Monday. The awards -- being given out since 2006 under CSE’s Green Schools Programme -- were presented this year by National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) director Krishna Kumar. The top award this year was bagged by the Government School at Boormajra for the second time. In 2006, the school had beaten all other contenders in the race by presenting remarkably precise audit documents. The data also reflected the effort that the school community -- with limited resources -- had made in managing its water. The school was reusing almost 50 per cent of the spillage from taps to irrigate the school grounds. “In 2007, the stud...

NEW DELHI : A government school at Boormajra in Punjab’s Ropar district, a rural school in a remote corner of Sikkim and one school each from Delhi and Noida have been adjudged the “greenest” in the country by the Centre for Science and Environment . These schools were conferred the Green Schools Awards-2007 at a ceremony organised here on Monday. The awards -- been given out since 2006 under CSE’s Green Schools Programme -- were presented this year by National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) director Krishna Kumar. The top award this year was bagged by the Government School at Boormajra for the second time. In 2006, the school had beaten all other contenders in the race by presenting remarkably precise audit documents. The data also reflected the effort that the school community -- with limited resources -- had made in managing its water . The school was reusing almost 50 per cent of the spillage from taps to irrigate the school grounds.  “In 2007, the st...