Jamshedpur: A steel city school here on Saturday shared a unique swachh campaign to foster competition among students in maintaining cleanliness.
The ADLS Sunshine School met the media at its new Kadma campus to speak on activities under Swachh Bharat, Swachh Vidyalaya - Clean School Mission under the aegis of Swachh Bharat Mission.
"We want to give every student the opportunity to be Spic and Span leader," principal Indrani Singh said in the presence of chairman of ADLS Society Schools N.V.R. Murty, general secretary of ADL Society M. Ravi Kumar, school secretary M. Nageshwar Rao, treasurer P. Simhadri and other members of the school committee.
On how it would work, she said it would be the responsibility of the students to ensure regular cleanliness of the huge new campus at Kadma that the school would shift to soon from the existing Sakchi one due to the Tata Steel expansion drive. The competition aimed at making each child realise that cleanliness is his or her responsibility and instilling in them an empathy for the school's support (sanitation) staff.
On the new premises, each new classroom has been divided into four rows, each row given names of members from Mahatma Gandhi's family - Karamchand, Kasturba, Devdas and Ramdas. This would make the implementation of the project easier in the school. Each row will be assigned the responsibility of maintaining cleanliness in classrooms for a week. Respective coordinators, rows individual leaders and last period subject teachers will see to the cleanliness.
"Under this, students will even prevent their peers from tearing pages off notebooks to make paper balls. We will also put up a chart with names of four rows on the class notice board. Negative feedback from support staff will be indicated by a red cross," Singh said.
"At the end of the school year, the row with minimum negative feedback from support will be felicitated. A special Spic and Span certificate will be printed and all children of that row will get the certificate along with academic progress card," she added.
