MAIN FEATURES OF SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN

The campaign aims sanitation but on a broader scale, including personal as well as social hygiene. It aims to develop proper sanitation and the use of technology for waste management. There are some important possibilities for hygienic development discussed below.

• To teach them the importance of cleanliness.
• To provide separate toilets for boys and girls.
• Solid and liquid waste management.
• Develop hygiene habits in them.
• Teach them to consume fresh food, clean water and use clean toilets.

Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan for students

The Swachhta Abhiyan also contains special programs for students. As we know children are the future of any nation and they play a very important role in the development of the nation because once they will adopt cleanliness as their habit, the nation will grow clean. Keeping this in mind the government started various cleanliness programs for children, by various ministries.

Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan

A cleanliness program specially organized for the betterment of students, so that they could be provided with proper toilets and to develop hygiene habits in them. It also focuses on building separate toilets for boys and girls.

Baal Swachhata Abhiyan

A program led by the Ministry of Education and Health and it is celebrated on the occasion of Children's Day and lasts for five days, the birth anniversary of Nehru from November 14 to November 19 being the birth date of Indira Gandhi. It is also a part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and the main objective of this Bal Swachhata Abhiyan is, to develop hygiene habits in children from a very young age. Children are the future of any nation and when we develop healthy habits in them from a very young age, they will develop it as their habit and a healthy habit will always keep them safe and energetic.

In this five-day campaign each day is celebrated with a different theme:

1. Clean Schools / Surroundings / Play areas: This is the theme for day one, in which students are taught some cleaning habits and the importance of keeping their school, surroundings and play areas including home clean.
2. Clean Food: Cleanliness is not only about the environment you live in, but it also includes the food you eat, the water you drink and the toilets you use. Each day has been segregated among all these cleaning types and one of them is food. To develop healthy eating habits, like to wash hands before and after food and etc.
3. Clean Self, Personal Hygiene, Child Safety: Personal hygiene is considered very important because a lack of personal hygiene can call various diseases, especially among children. Therefore, personal safety is very important.
4. Clean Drinking Water: Just as we need healthy and clean food, similarly we also need clean and sweet water for drinking. We develop several water-consumption methods to develop water harvesting habits.
5. Clean Toilet: It is very necessary to use a clean toilet because a dirty toilet can cause many diseases. Therefore, we should develop these habits from the beginning.