39 Schools Across Country Awarded Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar For 2021-22

39 schools across the nation including two Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, one Navodaya Vidyalaya and three Kendriya Vidyalayas have been awarded the Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar.

New Delhi:  Thirty-nine schools from across the country have been awarded the Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar for the 2021-22 academic session, the Ministry of Education announced on Saturday. The schools selected from among the total 8.23 lakh entries are 28 government and aided while 11 are private schools. The awarded schools include two Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, one Navodaya Vidyalaya, and three Kendriya Vidyalayas.

The Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar not only honors the schools that have taken exemplary work in the field of water, sanitation, and hygiene but also provides a benchmark and roadmap for schools to make further improvements. For the award, schools are rated on six broad parameters of -- water, toilets, handwashing with soap, operation, and maintenance, behavioral change and capacity building, and COVID-19 (Preparedness and Response).

"Out of 39 schools, 17 are elementary and 22 are secondary/ higher secondary schools. Cash prizes of Rs 60,000 to 34 schools (in overall category) and Rs 20,000 (in sub-categories) were given to the awardee schools today," a Ministry of Education official said. The third edition of the award saw participation from 9.59 lakh schools, around 1.5 times more than the number of schools (6.15 lakh schools) which participated in SVP 2017-18.

 

Out of the 9.59 lakh schools, more than 8.23 lakh schools submitted their applications for SVP 2021-22. The evaluation process of 4,27,718 eligible schools was undertaken at the district and state level, out of which 606 schools at State and UT level awards were found eligible for national level awards.

The National Selection Committee for selection of schools for SVP 2021-22, in their meeting held on 10th October 2022, selected 39 schools (34 in the overall category and five in sub-categories) for national-level awards for SVP 2021-2022, after the third party evaluation by UNICEF partner agency (NEERMAN).

Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar requested all schools to work hard in the field of cleanliness in schools to compete with the performance of award-winning schools, districts, and states. He also stressed that schools conferred with the national award may sustain the standard and rating of cleanliness and hygiene. 

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