Swachhata Pakhwada in govt schools from Sept 1

Peddpalli: District Educational Officer D Venkateshwar Rao informed that ‘Swachhata Pakhwada’ celebrations will be organised in all government schools from September 1 to 15 following the orders by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The DEO had on Thursday issued orders to all mandal education officers (MEOs) and school principals to conduct special activities as part of ‘Swachhata Pakhwada’ celebrations in their respective schools.

He ordered the school principals, teachers and students along with other staff members to observe September 1 as ‘Swachhata Day’ along with taking Swachhata pledge. They were also told to conduct a meeting on September 4 with school management, parents and teachers coordination committee and later to conduct an awareness programme on maintaining the surrounding clean and tidy and keeping personal hygiene and health.

Venkateshwar Rao also said that on September 6, the students must clean their classrooms and school surroundings as part of Swachha Bharat programme and on September 7 an awareness programme must be organised for students on the importance of washing hands before eating food, involving the local people’s representatives. Observing Personal Hygiene Day on September 8, organise audio and video programmes on maintaining of personal hygiene to students, he told the school staff.

On September 12, an awareness programme on utilisation of toilets and steps to prevent wastage of water, on September 13 rallies with students and teachers creating awareness among the people on Swachhata, on September 14 making the students to write letters to thesSarpanches on what they had learnt during the Swachhata Pakawada celebrations and on September 14, to conclude the programme the school principals must prepare the report on various programmes organised and must submit it to the higher officials along with uploading photos of all the programmes in the ‘Sarva Shishka Abhiyan portal’, he added.