Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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Aim - The rationale behind this review paper is to examine the association between the lean practices and green practices in the service sector. And that raises set of research issues and leading to select some research questions arising out this topic of research. Design/methodology/approach-The articles published in the period of 1999-2020 were collected by different data bases like Elsevier, emerald, Springer, Taylor Francis, the articles were scrutinized and clarified thoroughly close to the relation of lean and green management in service industries. Findings- Combining the lean and green together in the service organization is a daunting task much of the articles are emphasize more on the technologies rather than human efficiency in achieving the sustainability in the lean and green methods, so there is a large scope in the human involvement and the subsequent benefits of LGM(Lean and green management). Research implications/Limitations- There are many more articles e emphasizing the importance of lean implementation, lean management, lean six sigma but very few existing literatures are available only in lean greenmangement, after careful refining of the existing articles related to lean and green management in service industries we exclude many non relevant articles related to other domains (like green construction, green technologies in architecture etc.) based from this 84 articles only. Originality/value- The paper evaluates 84 articles reported in the domain of lean green management, it explores ample opportunities of research potential available in the lean green management in the service industries.

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