PANJIM: All the government schools in Goa will now be assessed in sanitation and hygiene practices adopted by them as part of Central government’s ambitious ‘Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar’ initiative.
The Directorate of Education (DoE) has appealed all the schools and higher secondary schools and special schools, under its jurisdiction to have their 100 per cent participation in the initiative 2021-22.
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The Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SPV) has been instituted by the Ministry of Education, Government of India to recognise, inspire and celebrate excellence in sanitation and hygiene practice in schools. The purpose of the SVP is to honor schools that have undertaken significant steps towards fulfilling the mandate of the Swachh Vidyalaya Campaign. SVP is based on IT enabled assessment of WASH infrastructure, hygienic practices and COVID-19 appropriate behaviour.
The participating schools will be accessed via an online portal and mobile app in all the six subcategories where the system will generate their overall score and rating automatically.
“It may be noted that getting an award or five star ranking is not the only objective of SPV, rather the key objective is to have sustainable, child friendly, gender and divyang appropriate, climate resilient, water, sanitation and hand washing facilities in schools besides adherence to hygiene as well as COVID-19 appropriate behavior in schools,” the DOE director Bhushan Sawaikar said in a circular issued.
The last date for participating is March 15.
