'Clean School Healthy Children' campaign 2022 | 25 Mar 2022

Why in News?

On March 24, 2022, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Education Minister Jagarnath Mahto launched the 'Clean School Healthy Children' campaign 2022 from the assembly premises and flagged off the cleanliness campaign vehicle.

Key Points

• With the aim of reactivating the infrastructure of the schools which were closed for a long period during the Corona period and in order to provide special training to children on cleanliness and hygiene, the 'Swachh Vidyalaya Healthy Children' campaign 2022 has been started with the joint effort of the Department of School Education and Literacy and UNICEF at the school level.
• This campaign will be run in all the schools of the state from March 24 to 30, 2022, under which efforts will be made to make the schools safe and organised.
• Under the campaign, a cleanliness campaign vehicle will be run in all 263 blocks of the state, which will help in organising 35000 schools through publicity.
• In this work, UNICEF and its affiliated organisations are providing technical support and training at the district/block, cluster and school level.
• With this campaign, schools will also get opportunity to improve their grading in force and clean school award competition.