10% budget for keeping schools clean in Rajasthan

The Raje government has made 10 per cent budget mandatory for Composite School Grant (CSG) for cleaning schools premises under Swachh Action Plan which falls under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). The education department has issued directives in this regard asking schools to utilise the budget at the earliest and intimate about the same to the senior officers on a regular basis.

In its latest circular, the department has provisioned budget for CSG according to the strength of the students enrolled in schools across the state. For a period of one year, Rs 12,500 for students strength of 1-15, Rs 25,000 for 16-100 students, Rs 50,000 for 100-250, Rs 75,000 for 250-1000 and Rs 1,00,000 for students over 1,000 in strength have been sanctioned under the scheme.

In the wake of SBM launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the department has provisioned 10 percent budget for works related to cleaning and maintaining hygiene in schools. For instance, if a school gets Rs 50,000 under the CSG scheme, then it is mandatory for it to spend 10 percent of the allotted budget, i.e. Rs 5,000 on cleaning work that includes maintenance and repairing of toilets and disposal of waste among other things. Use the remaining budget on repairing of building and buying furniture, reads the circular. A separate budget on cleanliness has been provisioned first time to help school management maintain hygene in school premises on a sustained basis. In order to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship cleanliness programme Swachh Bharat Mission a success, the BJP government in Rajasthan has been focusing on the mission. Lately, Udaipur administration along with a private firm initiated a cleanliness awareness drive and roped in school children for the same. Such innovations earned the state Swach Vidhyalaya Puraskar last year.

Composite Grant

The budget is mandatory for Composite School Grant (CSG) for cleaning schools premises under Swachh Action Plan which falls under Swachh Bharat Mission. The education department has issued directives in this regard asking schools to utilise the sum.

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