Swachhata Action Plan in each School
Operational guidelines for development of Swachhata Action Plan in each School under Samagra Shiksha – Certain guidelines
While enclosing the reference cited, where in the Director, Ministry of Education, Department of School Education & Literacy, Government of India, New Delhi has informed that the Global evidence suggest that water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in school has positive impacts on learning environment, health & educational outcome for children and recent COVID-19 period have further exaggerated the significance of “Resilient basic functional wash services in school”.
As envisaged under Samagra Shiksha,
Swachhata Action Plan (SAP)”
provides a ready opportunity
to Plan, implement and
converge action towards sustained
improvement of the
WASH facilities provisions
& Hygiene behaviours in schools. Robust SAP development, as
realistic local planning, is the frst
step towards improved WASH services in the
schools. To achieve the vision
of clean school, SAP,
Samagra Shiksha, has the following
specific integrated features/ requirements
• SAP
should be based on credible analysis of existing situation, gap assessment
•
Convergence with the key
departments/ ministry/
schemes/Stakeholders at the local level.
• Samagra
Shiksha, Provides for an anuual composite school grant varying up to Rs.1 Lakh
per year depending on the number of
Students, out of which 10% has to be spent on SAP priorities.
• SAP
needs to be integrated in the Annual
implementation
Plan for education.
• A
Mechanism is required to track progress against the
SAP
In this connection, the Government of India has circulated a
detailed Guidance notes for development of school level “Swachhata Action Plan” and SAP Template”. States/UTs
which have robust state Specific MIS, with Specific information are advised
to integrate the Swachhata
Action Plan (SAP) with their MIS System for effective monitoring.
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