While the audience is focused solely on the students performing on stage, there are students who work nonstop to ensure that the 61st State Youth Festival is pollution-free. Green Protocol Committee members work tirelessly to maintain cleanliness around the venue.

As the crowd increases, trash also piles up. The committee members run around, collect trash, and segregate it appropriately. The volunteers from the NSS and NCC received training for this purpose. As many as 120 pupils from Zamorin's Higher Secondary School alone are working each day, in turns.

To stand out from the crowd, they wear T-shirts provided by Mathrubhumi and 'Azhak', the Kozhikode Corporation's hygiene initiative. The students collect waste two to three times every day. They inspect the classrooms, corridors, and ground as soon as they arrive in the morning to make sure everything is clean. Azhak employees later pick up the waste. Additionally, there are 'Azhak' employees to help them out.

"Compared to all these years, the surroundings this time are well maintained and kept clean, and I observed that even the audience is cooperating and putting waste in the dustbins," said Sajitha N, principal of Zamorin's Higher Secondary School who is also the coordinator of the 2nd Cluster of the Green Protocol Committee. Additionally, she said, "This might be a push to rid Kerala of pollution."

To create awareness among people, regular announcements are also made. According to teacher Durga K C, children are so involved that they are coming up with new ideas to adopt at the school level to make school a pollution-free zone. "Students enthusiastically contribute their best efforts to ensure cleanliness," she said.

Geen volunteer Aleen P Ashraf stated with enthusiasm, "We work together with a service attitude, and we are happy doing this."