28 Nov 2012, New Delhi
In a Union Government-sponsored national rating of CBSE Schools all over the country, Amrita Vidyalayams have topped bagging 16 out of 100 awards.
There are more than 10,200 CBSE Schools in India of which nearly 1,500 are in Kerala. In Kerala itself, Amrita won 10 out of 19 total awards in the State.
Awards were given for: (i) Awareness Generation leading to Behavioural Change through Students and Community Mobilization, (ii) Technical Innovation and Interventions, (iii) Creation & Conservation of Green Spaces, etc.
The National School Sanitation Ratings is promoted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), Government of India, on an annual basis for those Schools who have been rated online for sanitation and taken noteworthy steps towards betterment of the sanitation scenario in their Schools in varied ways.
Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju, Union Cabinet Minister for Human Resource Development, conferred the Awards at a function in Delhi today.
The Amrita Vidyalayams are managed by the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission Trust in Kerala. Out of the 16 Awardees – Amrita Vidyalayams, 6 are outside the State (Secunderabad, Kolkata, New Delhi, Navi Mumbai, Durgapur, and Ahmedabad) and 10 in Kerala itself (Thalassery, Palakkad, Mananthavady, Pulpally, Pathanamthitta, Pandalam, Thiruvalla, Ernakulam, Ottapalam and Koilandy).