{"id":161375,"date":"2022-01-13T20:36:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=161375"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:08:06","slug":"union-minister-launches-swachh-vidyalaya-puraskar-2021-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-launches-swachh-vidyalaya-puraskar-2021-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister launches Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar 2021 \u2013 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minister of State for Education has virtually launched Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP) 2021 \u2013 2022. <\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar(SVP)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SVP awards were instituted in 2016-17 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: To recognize, inspire and celebrate excellence in sanitation and hygiene practice in Schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Coverage: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The award i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s open to all categories of schools. i.e. Government, Government aided and Private schools in both rural and urban areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Categories: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The schools will be assessed through an online portal &amp; mobile app in 6 sub-categories: <strong>a)<\/strong> Water <strong>b)<\/strong> Sanitation <strong>c)<\/strong> Handwashing with soap <strong>d)<\/strong> Operation and Maintenance <strong>e)<\/strong> Behaviour Change and Capacity Building and <strong>f)<\/strong> newly added category on COVID-19 Preparedness and Response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Application: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The schools have been given sufficient time till March 2022 to apply for the awards so that they can do so at an appropriate and safe time.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aser-survey-and-issues-in-school-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASER Survey and issues in school education \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>Awards:<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>\u2013 <\/b><b>Schools shall be awarded at the District, State and National level <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">based on an internationally recognized five-star rating system. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, every school will get a certificate of participation showing the category-wise scores and overall rating of the school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 <\/b><b>At the National level,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 40 schools will be selected for awards this year under the overall category. Also, 6 sub-category wise awards have also been introduced for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-education-policy-follows-mahatma-gandhis-nai-talim-in-terms-of-mother-tongue-vice-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New education policy follows Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s \u201cNai Talim\u201d in terms of mother tongue: Vice President<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Union Minister launches Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar 2021 \u2013 2022<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on <b>12th January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Minister of State for Education has virtually launched Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP) 2021 \u2013 2022. What is Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar(SVP)? The SVP awards were instituted in 2016-17 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education). Aim: To recognize, inspire and celebrate excellence in sanitation and hygiene practice&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-launches-swachh-vidyalaya-puraskar-2021-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister launches Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar 2021 \u2013 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-161375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704906054},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}