ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES IN KANGRA DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
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2021-12
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UHF,NAUNI
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The investigation entitled “Environmental Accounting of Educational Institutes of the Kangra
District of Himachal Pradesh” was conducted during the period 2019-2021 in the department of
Environmental Science, Dr YS Parmar university of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan. Six
educational institutes of Palampur, district Kangra were selected for assessing the environmental
accounting. Five parameters viz., energy, food, material, solid waste and water were taken to estimate
ecological footprint. A pre tested questionnaire was used to conduct survey to determine the
sustainability of the selected institutes on the basis of Environment Protection Agency scorecard. The
ecological footprints of GSSS (girl’s), A.B.M. school, St. Paul’s school, SCVB Govt. Degree College,
Dr. G.C. Negi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, KLB DAV (Girl’s) College during pre
COVID-19 period were 20.757gha, 77.535gha, 118.334gha, 88.39gha, 82.885gha and 62.58gha and
per capita ecological footprint was 0.289gha, 0.0519gha, 0.0605gha, 0.0467gha, 0.2077gha and
0.0829gha respectively. The ecological footprint of GSSS (girl’s), A.B.M. school, St. Paul’s school,
SCVB Govt. Degree College, Dr. G.C. Negi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, KLB DAV
(Girl’s) College during COVID-19 period was 0.00108gha, 0.0275gha, 0.247gha, 0.257gha,
0.407gha, 0.6039gha and per capita was 0.001636gha, 0.002gha, 0.00189gha, 0.06464gha,
0.00167gha and 0.00196gha respectively. The biocapacity per capita of GSSS (Girl’s), A.B.M.
school, St. Paul’s school, SCVB Govt. Degree College, Dr. G.C. Negi College of Veterinary and
Animal Sciences, KLB DAV (Girl’s) College was 2.55gha, 0.557gha, 0.92gha, 0.131gha, 2.9gha and
2.23gha respectively. The average biocapacity per capita was found to be 1.548gha. The biocapacity
per capita was higher than the per capita ecological footprint, which showed that selected educational
institutes are in ecological reserve. The selected educational institutes of Palampur fell under the
category of less than 60 and under the category of 60-120 sustainability scale, which showed that
campuses sustainability pattern was quite good, as per the Environment Protection Agency
sustainability scorecard