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khaskhabar.com : Monday, 24 April 2023 12:00 PM
Lucknow. School children of UP will now be exposed to the changing picture of water in rural areas. The Yogi Adityanath government will conduct exposure visits to students studying in council schools through the Jal Gyan Yatra programme. For this, the Basic Education Department has written a letter to the Basic Education Officers of all the districts, instructing them to provide the authorized list of schools and children to the State Drinking Water and Sanitation Mission office on priority basis.
Jal Gyan Yatra program will be organized by Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department and Basic Education Department. Through this program, students will witness the entire process of ensuring supply of clean drinking water even in rugged areas by Jal Jeevan Mission. For the first time, this is a unique effort by any state in the country, in which school students will be given the smallest details of the entire program, making them part of the state government’s ambitious scheme.
On behalf of Director General School Education Vijay Kiran Anand, instructions have been given to all basic education officers that maximum 10-10 students and 2-2 nodal teachers will be selected from each school for the Jal Gyan Yatra programme. Such children will be selected on priority who have participated in the National Innovation Campaign and have been deprived of participation in the educational tour program by them in 2022-23. While selecting the students for the exposure visit, it should also be kept in mind that both the students get equal opportunity to participate. Apart from this, BSA will be responsible for arrangements like gathering, safety and security, excursion, safe return home of students.
Jal Gyan Yatra program will start this month itself. Groups of students will be shown to STP, water treatment plant during Jal Gyan Yatra. In the first phase of this free Jal Gyan Yatra, a trip to Lucknow, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Mahoba and Jhansi will be made. During this visit, competition will also be organized through quizzes in sports and games. The students of the state will get information about the development works under Jal Jeevan Mission’s Har Ghar Jal Yojana through Jal Gyan Yatra.
Children will also be able to see closely the changing picture of Bundelkhand through Jal Jeevan Mission. The department will soon organize a mega visit to Bundelkhand under the Jal Gyan Yatra programme. Children will be informed about how the Jal Jeevan Mission has succeeded in ensuring supply of clean drinking water to every household despite difficult conditions in rugged areas like Bundelkhand.(IANS)
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