From an initial list of more than 800 entries received from across the country, the process of arriving at the best five institutions has certainly not been an easy one. The two month long evaluation process, culminating with the final selection by an independent jury of eminent experts, considered multiple criteria - rigor, interconnectedness, balance and structure. Many congratulations to the selected institutes for the Wipro earthian 2011 awards.

"Earthian Awards 2011" presentation function, a day long program will be held on 21st January 2012, at J N Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

School Category

The 5 institutes selected in the school category for the earthian awards 2011 are:

Name of School	Title	Team Members
Prakriya Green Wisdom School, Bangalore	From the Farm to the Table -Why should we bother about Agriculture? (Theme: Agriculture) Read	Aditya Ramesh, Bhavani Sitaraman, Malavika Madhu, Vineet Gopakumar
Rishi Valley School, Chittor District, Andhra Pradesh	Watch Your Waste (Theme: Production and Consumption) Read	Shreya Menon, Rukmini Swaminathan, Tarini Dhar, Supritha C., Radhika Menon, T. K.Harini, S. Smrithi
	Water and the Valley (Theme: Water) Read	Arjun Ashoka, Aryaman Jal, Ishaan Agrawal, Samvit Sengupta, Nihal Saldana, Kabir Srivastav, Devdarshan Bastola Tanmay Bedi
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Vigyan Vihar, Delhi	Conceptualization and Implementation of Zero Solid Waste Management Strategy. (Theme:Production and Consumption) Read	Harshda, Sonali, Chetali, Roli, Parul
Anubhuti School, Jalgaon,Maharashtra	Our Homes (Theme: Our Homes) Read	Devishi Chawda, Prerna Chandak , Ritika Sarada, Vedanti Patil, Siddharth Jirati, Rishabh Bafna, Aishwarya Patil, Arohi Jain, Alok Kumar Mohanty
Sri Kumaran Children's Home, Bangalore	One Small Step (Theme: Cities and Communities ) Read	Harshita V, Shwetha G, Darshini R, Ananth A, Ruchira R , Mrs.Jayanthi Sridhar

Rishi Valley School had 2 entries which were selected by the jury

College Category

The 5 institutes selected in the college category for the earthian awards 2011 are:

Institute Name	Title	Team Members
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode	Green Computer Center (Theme: Role of Information and Communication Technologies) Read	Krishnadas N, Supriya KK , Ram Kumar Dhurkari, Prof. Radhakrishna Pillai
	Integrating Solid Waste Management and Organic Far(Theme: Cities and Communities, Agriculture, Role of Policies, Regulations) Read	Sivaharsh S, Raj B, Praveen S, Paresh Mali, Monica Pachori
Indian Institute of Management, Indore	Water Sustainability in Long Term (Theme: Water) Read	Mayank Goel
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	Impact analysis of distributed generation and RE based distributed generation on Indian economy and economy of BoP (Theme: Climate Change, Production and Consumption, Agriculture, Role of Policies, Regulations) Read	A Parashar, M Shah, P K Das
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad	Policy level transformations for enabling businesses in India to reorient their growth strategies. Read	Avneesh Singh, Dipayan Dey, Harsha Nallur, Kadam Aggarwal, Kartik AVR, Sayantan Banerjee
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore	Waste Exchange Portal in India. Read	Pranay Das, Sandeep Kumar Singh

IIM, Kozhikode had 2 entries which were selected by the jury