State Government has sought information regarding toilets in the Government run schools and colleges in all the districts of the State. In a letter sent to all district collectors and Mission Director, District Shiksha Kendra, the Government asked them to assess requirements of toilets in Government schools. If more than one school is run in the same building, which already has toilets counting of toilets for other schools should not be made.
District administrations have been asked to assess requirement for separate toilets for girl and boy students and send information in prescribed proforma. Name of parliamentary/Vidhan Sabha, nature of school, number of registered boy and girl students, total requirement of toilets, available and unavailable toilets in schools must be mentioned.
Similarly, information has been sought in separate proforma about workable toilets. In it, apart from other information, estimates of funds have also sought for toilets requiring re-construction and kind of repairs. Kinds of repairs including those of ceiling, door, floor, plaster, electricity fitting, septic tank, WC seat etc.
Notably, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed to send information after assessing requirement of toilets in the State’s schools in the context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement for separate toilets for boys and girls in schools. Districts have been asked to send this information through e-mail of Rajya Shiksha Kendra’s construction cell.
Construction of school buildings with toilet and drinking water facility is among top priorities of the state government. As many as 28 thousand 925 works have been sanctioned for 4178 schools under National Secondary Education Campaign for universalisation of school education in the state. These works include labs, libraries, drinking water and toilet arrangements. Similarly, sanction of 83 thousand 515 toilets has also been given under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
The state government has sent a proposal for infrastructural improvement to Government of India in which information about 4088 toilets in 7379 schools has been given.