Swachhata initiatives of the Ministry will answer in

-Improvement in health and hygiene practices of kids, their communities and families.

-Inclusion of health and hygiene in the teaching and curriculum structure.

-Goals to improve kids health, retention, school enrollment, and attendance especially of girl child.

-Hygiene in schools also cover school nutrition.

-Healthy and well-nourished child’s do completely participate in school and get the most from the education.

-Behavioral changes in hygiene.

‘Swachh Bharat,Swachh Vidyalaya’ is a key initiative of Indian Gov and schools are one of the most significant contributory units where from the problems of sanitation and hygiene would emerge to attain the goals of ‘Clean India’ campaign.

Institutes/School have undertaken these activities during Swachhata Pakhwada

– Cleanliness pattern in the Schools (Premises, washrooms etc.)

– Various competitions on Swachhata like debate, essay, and painting etc.

– Slogan writing and Displaying banners on Swachhata.

– Other cultural plans on Swachhata.

– Swachhata Shapath (pledge).

– Rooting out old files, repair and removal of broken furniture, equipment’s etc.

– Awareness creation to school kids and public through audio-visual initiative.

Objective of Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya Yojana

1. 1. It was introduced in the year 2014, when the Modi gov. has realized that due to low quality water supply and sanitation in the schools, numerous students are dropping out midway.

1. The students, especially girls are forced to miss or stop their school when they reach adolescence age due to unhygienic system in the schools, mainly in rural areas.
2. Looking at such scenario, the gov. has began this initiative namely Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan in 2014 for making the schools better and cleaner.
3. With better hygiene, water supply, sanitation and other elements associated to cleanliness the plan has initiated operating from the same year.

Features of the scheme

• As per this plan, the educational and the school institutes around the nation will get rewarded for adopting hygiene and cleanliness methods within their premises.
• The main motto of the abhiyan is to make certain that the schools are hygienic and that they are teaching the kids to take care of their surroundings. With this plan, the scheme initiated in 2016.
• As a result of this plan, the girl child will also not block going to the schools in the midway. They will get hygienic pattern which will also eliminate spreading diseases.
• This abhiyan, as a chunk of Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan which initiated in the year 2014, started its operations from 2016 onward. It is being resumed for the next phase which is from 2017-18.
• The parent yojana has a focus to get the whole country sanitized and clean by the year 2019. Schools, where students grasp cleanliness apart from getting primary education is focused for a reason.
• 35 states do participate in the plan from the year 2016 to 2017. The states select more than 640 schools and another 172 schools were selected for the national award.
• Last year, only gov. schools dp participate in this plan but this year it has been extended to the private schools as well. This is why there is a huge increase in the number of participants.
• Nearly 2, 68,402 schools have applied for the plan. This time the yojana will go bigger and the students will also engage in different activities.
• The schools that participate in this Abhiyan supposed to call their students ‘cleanliness ambassadors’. Doing so, placed them in the streamline of responsibility for the maintenance as well.

How would schools be rewarded?

• The major feature of the plan is to reward the schools as per their ranks on a national level. They will be thoroughly rewarded and selected by the central gov. after a keen observation.
• They will be ranked on the grounds of condition of hygiene, their water availability, cleanliness, sanitation, general behavior, condition of or lack thereof of the washrooms, and other aspects associated to cleanliness.

Types of awards

So based to your sanitation layer, you will be ranked as a yellow, green, or blue school. Now it will decide the rewards you can get.

• District level rewards: At this phase, you shall be rewarded regardless of the yellow, blue, or green tag. All of these three category schools do participate and win an prize at the district level.
• State or UT level: This phase is a notch higher and therefore only the Blue and the Green rated schools are qualify to participate here.
• National Level: This is the top most layer. Only the well kept school and most hygienic ones do reach this level. You suppose to qualify as a green category school to reach this layer.

How to register online

• Step 1: Visit this link http://www.swachhvidyalaya.com/ which will catch you to the home page of the abhiyan straight way. On the landing page you will get a link denoted Apply – click it.
• Step 2: If you are unable to discover the Apply button plainly look for it on the main menu of the website. Once you open up the page you will again supposed to hit on Online survey.
• Step 3: On this page you will discover the blank fields which you supposed to fill to participate. Info like number of students in the school, school type, etc supposed to be entered in this chunk of the application form.
• Step 4: After you completed it, you will see an option denoted Submit at the bottom of the page. Make certain that you have entered everything properly and then hit on submit.
• Step 5: At this stage you will get a password on your phone number. Don’t delete this message as you will require this password to login to your account henceforth.
• Step 6: Now at this stage the basic registration process will have been fulfilled. You will, however, still suppose to fill up 5 more sections of the page.
• Step 7: Once the registration is done, just keep checking your email IDs or your phone messages as you will be asked to fulfill the complete registration later. All you have to do is enter right information and you are great to go.

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