A team of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) from New Delhi visited Chittoor district on Tuesday, going round several government schools intended for the “Swachh Bharath Swachh Vidyalaya" project.
As part of this, FICCI would fund construction of as many as 250 toilets in government high schools, with emphasis on Yerpedu, Madanapalle and Tamballapalle mandals.
Speaking to The Hindu , Sarva Siksha Abhiyan project director S. Lakshmi said that the FICCI team led by Uma Settu and Nominitha had a meeting with District Collector Siddarth Jain, who presented them the requirements of the project.
The collector sought them to focus on high schools holding high number of students, besides giving priority to girls’ high schools.
The SSA official said that the construction of 250 toilets would be completed by March 2017 or even before. “For the year 2015-16, various public sector units (PSUs) and corporate sectors, including the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Indian Oil Corporation and TCS came forward with as many as 1,440 toilets in schools and majority of them were completed,” she said.
The current project of the FICCI was assisted by the student teams from Tirupati-based Sri Padmavathi Mahila University in the form conducting surveys and identification of schools in rural areas.
“The FICCI funded Swachh Vidyalaya project is being grounded only in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh for the year 2016-17,” she said.
Ms. Lakshmi said that there are over 3.5 lakh students in various government schools in the district.
“We have plans to involve more and more PSUs and corporate units to sponsor the project. We are hopeful of achieving good results in the coming two years,” the official said.
