Awards and Accreditations


Bharat Ratan Siksha Award for Best personalities was conferred on Mrs. Santhya Vikram by The Economic for Health and Educational Growth for outstanding achievement in Individual Contribution for National Economic and Social Development, at the National Awards and Seminar on 20th June 2022 at New Delhi.


The India Reading Olympiad is a unique platform that enables, encourages, endorses an ecosystem that creates active reading spaces, encourages the joy for reading and appreciates the efforts towards igniting a reading revolution.

And among these 13 categories, Yellow Train School was given the award for the category Pleasure for Reading- Schools for using creative ways of making books accessible to all and encouraging reading habits and promoting the joy of reading at a ceremony in the Hyderabad Literary Fest on January 28 2023.


Yellow Train featured in the top 10 of India’s Most Unique Schools.

Learning Out of the Box – 10 of India’s Most Unique Schools 2018 -  The Better India

Amongst others on this varied list were Loktak Lake School, The Platform School, The Smart School and Veena Vadini School. Here we were recognised for the farm environment, teacher relationship, learning joyfully and the focus on overall development of the child.

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Yellow Train in Top 20 Best Alternative Schools In India.

Yellow Train was voted best alternative school in Coimbatore  and featured alongside Rishi Valley, Abhaya, Inodai, Sahyadri, Pallikoodam, Tridha , Anand Niketan and Ukti prominent schools across India.

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These 5 unique schools in India are stunning us with their innovative methods features Yellow Train

India Today Jan 2020

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News Patrolling Jan 2020 : Yellow Train in 5 Most emerging schools in India

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Yellow Train in 10 Unique Schools of India  March 2017 , Jul 2019 - The Peeper Times

Yellow Train found itself in the top 10 Unique Schools working to bring quality education to children.   Yellow Train was amongst schools like Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences,Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya, Druk Padma Waldorf School.

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Yellow Train Featured in Education World July 2018 Alternative Schools Charting New Flight Paths 

Yellow Train featured extensively in an article by Education World about the rising child- sensitive, new-age schools springing up across the country offering alternatives to  mainstream education. Yellow Train was featured alongside Rishi Valley an established J Krishnamurthi School and other Waldorf Schools like Sloka and Inodai; prominent and well known schools in India. It was identified for its environment, child friendly culture, building and space and unique bogie library.

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Design& Architecture Award - Yellow Train Primary Building

Yellow Train Primary School Building , NDTV Winners  of the Design & Architecture Awards 2015 , Best Environmental Design

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