After successful ‘Swachchh Bharat Mission’, Punjab is all set to launch Bal Swachchhata Mission form November 14. A week-long campaign would be launched on the Children’s Day with the aim to motivate children in keeping themselves, their homes, schools and surrounding clean.
“Bal Swachchhata Mission is the next phase of the Swachchh Bharat Mission (SBM) launched by the Prime Minister on October 2. like SBM, this Mission would be a nationwide sanitation initiative focusing mainly on children,” said the spokesperson.
During this sanitation drive, children would be sensitised and involved in different aspects of hygiene and sanitation. There would be six main themes for the Bal Swachchhata Mission — clean school and anganwadis, clean surroundings (playgrounds etc), clean self (personal hygiene or child health), clean food, clean drinking water and clean toilets.
Spokesperson said that children would also be administered pledge to keep themselves and their surround clean. During the campaign, one of the themes would be focused across the state each day, and activities connected to the theme would be organised on that particular day.
“All relevant departments specially Department of School Education, Department of Women and Child Development, Department of Rural Development and Panchyats have been instructed to ensure that these activities are organised in every school and anganwadi of the state,” he said.
He said that the campaign would culminate on the World Toilet Day on November 19, thus giving the opportunity of spreading the message of ending open defecation.