New Delhi: As many as 48 institutes from across the country on Tuesday were given away the 3rd ‘Swachh Awards’ under various categories. The award has been instituted by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development as a part of the Swachh Bharat Mission to promote environmental hygiene in the higher education system and beyond.
The institutes were ranked under UGC and AICTE categories such as residential and non-residential universities; residential and non-residential colleges and government residential universities. Higher Education Secretary R Subrahmanyam gave away the awards.
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The rankings were based on various parameters of hygiene like student-toilet ratio, hostel hygiene, hostel kitchen hygiene, availability of water, water conservation measures, campus greenery, administrative responsibility for hygiene etc.
The Union Minister of Human Resource and Development Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in the last three years, the response from institutions to the ranking has been steadily growing.
“In 2017, 3200 institutions participated, in 2018, it was 6100 institutions and now in 2019, a total of 6900 institutions participated in the ranking exercise. Therefore, the need and awareness of maintaining Swachh Campuses and also voluntarily taking up village hygiene activity are now spreading across the Indian Higher Education system with active enthusiasm,” he said.
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