Forest Minister hands out cash awards to top 5 Green Schools of the state

GANGTOK, 17 April: Minister for Forest, Environment and Wildlife Management Department [FE&WMD] Bhim Dhungel released the balance amount of the enhanced cash awards to the top 05 schools under the Green School Programme-2011 here in the Capital in a small function today.
The heads of the top 5 schools were handed the enhanced cash award by the Minister.
The Chief Minister Pawan Chamling during his address on the occasion of the World Environment Day celebration on 05 June, 2011 at Chintan Bhawan had announced enhancements in the cash award from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 5 lakh for the first position and from Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 1 Lakh each for second to fifth position. The awards scheme with the most prestigious Chief Minister Green School Rolling Trophy was also launched on the same day and the award scheme has been notified vide official gazette No. 627 dated 2/12/2011.
Likewise, the meritorious schools for 2010-11 session to receive the enhanced cash awards are Middle Camp Secondary School [first], Reshi SS [second], Lower Samdong SS [third], Lingchom SS [fourth] and Linkey SS [fifth] respectively.
The said award scheme has been introduced to encourage more schools to participate in the environment management programmes.
The Minister apart from handing over the enhanced cash amount to the top 5 schools under Green School Programme-2011 even honored the heads of Dentam SSS, Deorali Girls SSS and Tingley SS who bagged the first, second and fourth Gobar Times Green Schools National Award 2011-12, recently.