AGGARWAL, R KSOOD, ALISHA2021-12-232021-12-232021-12https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810179773ABSTRACT 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 scorecardEnglishThesis