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Last Monday, our school held an environment competition in which each student was asked to submit a presentation on any environment measure that is running in any part of the world. While they were impressed by my presentation and it made me to won the competition, I thought this should be posted here also. The presentation also included some exciting thing about TUNZA. So that, every people should be aware of this amazing organisation. And they did keep me in an hour long discussion asking me about it and my post as Regional Ambassador. Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan - An initiative launched officially on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi, Where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself wielded broom and cleaned a road. Swachh Bharat or Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Campaign Clean India) is a national level campaign by the Government of India covering 4041 statutory towns to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. The campaign is India's biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and schools and colleges students of India participated in this event. The mission was started as a tree with each of the nine personalities nominated by Narendra Modi to in turn nominate nine other people and so on. It has been carried forward since then with famous people from all walks of life joining it. The importance of this movement : "The provision of water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in school secures a healthy school environment and protects children from illness and exclusion. Hygiene in school also supports school nutrition. The simple act of washing hands with soap before eating the school mid day meal assists to break disease transmission routes. Having safe water, toilet and hygiene facilities in schools promotes equity. " The Prime Minister of India spread the words himself : .... I want to make a beginning today itself and that is - all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls. Only then our daughters will not be compelled to leave schools midway. Our parliamentarians utilizing MPLAD fund are there. I appeal to them to spend it for constructing toilets in schools for a year. The government should utilize its budget on providing toilets. I call upon the corporate sector also to give priority to the provision of toilets in schools with your expenditure under Corporate Social Responsibility. This target should be finished within one year with the help of state governments and on the next 15th August, we should be in a firm position to announce that there is no school in India without separate toilets for boys and girls.? Students from all over the country actively participated in the mission. They participated in every possible manner with being the active leader of some campaign, they also ran awareness among adults. The common people seemed to be as much involved in this as the government officials. They also practiced some moto: -Practicing hygiene and treating the country as very own home. -Inculcating the practice of cleanliness and good living in children. -Joining hands with NGO's in cleanliness drives and standing as an example to get friends and colleagues involved. -Trying to educate and create awareness among the innocent & ignorant people in reach. This campaign aims to accomplish the vision of 'Clean India' by 2 October 2019, 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and is expected to cost over 62000 crore (US$10 billion). The campaign was described as "beyond politics" and "inspired by patriotism". More than 3 million government employees and schools and colleges students of India are going to participate in this event. Some of the important steps taken through this mission : • Promote sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene programmes for faith- based, private and government schools in your community. • Encourage participation of students, teachers and community members in all aspects of a clean school campaign, including planning, construction, operation and maintenance, behaviour change, monitoring and evaluation. • Educate congregations on the health, education and economic benefits of improved water, sanitation and hygiene in schools. • Increase coverage in print, television, radio and social media such as blogging, Facebook and Twitter. • Reach broad audiences by using statistics and covering stories and good practices from programmes in a compelling way. • Integrate hygiene messages in daily school curriculum like morning assembly and prayers, during subject classes like mathematics, science, social sciences. • Educate students about proper toilet use and handwashing, including washing hands before meals and after toilet use. • Facilitate and supervise daily handwashing before mid day meal activities, supervise operation and maintenance of toilet, drinking water sources and handwashing facilities. • Inform students about the changes they will go through during adolescence, and provide space for girls and boys to talk about menstruation and learn about menstrual hygiene. A quick look : -Less than a third of India's 1.2 billion people have access to sanitation and more than 186,000 children under five die every year from diarrhoeal diseases caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation, according to the charity WaterAid. -According to WaterAid research, about 16 million Indians a year gain access to a basic toilet Narendra Modi government has made building toilets a priority and he has pledged that every household will have a toilet by 2019. -Industry chamber CII has announced it would mobilise its members to build 10,000 toilets across the country by 2015-16. |
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Well reported Basu. I hope we all exceed the target of cleanliness of India. Your spirits are very high & many congratulations for winning the competition.
Well deserved!
Posted 31-01-2015 19:17
Congrats , Basu for winning the competition. Your choice of subject or environment mission was superb-Clean India Movement-PM Modi's close to heart mission. High profile Ministers picking brooms in their hands to clean up the place conveys a very strong message that cleanliness is the basic necessity for safe and healthy living and we should not feel shy in brooming and cleaning our place /surroundings. Cleanliness is our collective responsibilty as we are all the stakeholders.
Posted 31-01-2015 01:25