The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on 30 January honored 433 schools from across India as the country’s ‘greenest’ institutions at the Green School Awards 2025–26, recognizing their commitment to sustainable campus practices and environmental learning.
The awards are conferred annually under CSE’s Green Schools Program (GSP), a 21-year-old environmental education initiative that enables students to conduct a rigorous, on-campus environmental audit of their own schools, to measure the efficacy of resource management and green practices in the school.
Schools take ownership of their green journey through self-conducted audits with CSE’s guidance.
Speaking on the occasion, CSE director general Sunita Narain said: “Over the years, many generations of students have gone through the GSP’s process of learning how to audit their own environmental footprint—to measure it, benchmark it, and then work deliberately to make a difference. GSP allows us to measure change; it is visible and it can and must be celebrated.”
