A.P. govt. opens ‘net-zero’ residential school at Kuntamukkala near Vijayawada

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Mylavaram MLA Vasantha Venkata Krishna Prasad, Secretary, APSWREIS caput   Prasanna Venkatesh and representatives of Heartfulness participating successful  a plantation thrust  arsenic  portion  of the motorboat  of the net-zero residential schoolhouse  astatine  Kuntamukkala adjacent   Vijayawada connected  Wednesday.

Mylavaram MLA Vasantha Venkata Krishna Prasad, Secretary, APSWREIS caput Prasanna Venkatesh and representatives of Heartfulness participating successful a plantation thrust arsenic portion of the motorboat of the net-zero residential schoolhouse astatine Kuntamukkala adjacent Vijayawada connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The Andhra Pradesh government, successful collaboration with Heartfulness, an acquisition and volunteer-based non-profit organisation, launched a Net-Zero Residential School, a aviator project, astatine the A.P. Social Welfare Residential School astatine Kuntamukkala successful Krishna territory connected Wednesday.

Participating successful the programme, Vijayawada MP Kesineni Sivanath said the inaugural would effect successful immense ecosystems crossed Andhra Pradesh being cared for by students. “Nurturing a consciousness of work towards quality astatine an aboriginal property volition hole them to go environmentally conscious aboriginal leaders,” helium said.

The aviator task aims to service arsenic a scalable exemplary of an Integrated Ecological Campus, which volition see greenish belts, a rainforest, wetlands, and microgreens, thereby closing the Net-Zero loop. It seeks to make an situation conducive to learning portion grooming students to instrumentality work for ecology done student-led greenish governance, with scope for scaling crossed Andhra Pradesh.

Mylavaram MLA Vasantha Venkata Krishna Prasad said this aviator task volition person a ripple effect passim the authorities by introducing the Net-Zero conception successful residential schools

NTR District Collector G. Lakshmisha said determination is immense learning progressive successful this project, arsenic it grooms the students to go liable citizens

APSWREIS caput Prasanna Venkatesh said the seven-year task aims to execute antagonistic c emissions, amended ungraded wellness and biodiversity, and trim freshwater usage. “When sustainability becomes a mode of beingness successful residential schools, it becomes a lifelong habit,” helium said.

Chairman, Forests by Heartfulness Ramakantha and Director, Forests by Heartfulness Saravanan Subramanian were besides present. A wide plantation drive, with greenish enthusiasts coming together, marked the event.

Published - January 07, 2026 11:24 p.m. IST

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