District administrators with a sense of commitment succeeded in providing toilet facility in all the government schools in Krishna district by July. The facility has arguably led to prevention of drop-out rate of girls from high schools.
However, the mechanism to keep the toilets clean and make them ready for use every day has become a problem, said Krishna District Joint Collector Gandham Chandrudu.
The district has more than 3,300 schools including primary, upper primary and high schools and all of them have been provided with the facility. The District Rural Development Authority (DRDA) took up a pilot project by appointing interested members of the Self-Help Groups as cleaners in 42 schools in Mylavaram mandal.
Monthly wage
The cleaners had been promised a fixed monthly wage. Later, more SHG members were engaged in 1,547 schools, said DRDA Project Director D. Chandrasekhara Raju.
But a majority of the 1,547 cleaners had not been reporting for work citing non-payment of wages. More than 1,700 government schools face the problem leading to poor sanitary conditions in the school premises. Many parents feel the problem would affect the health condition of their wards and some of the students may leave the schools.
In the district Zilla Parishad General Body meeting held on Saturday, several ZPTCs complained that the sanitary condition in many schools with more than 400 students was bad. The officials from the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, education department and the DRDA have to work out a plan to guarantee safe sanitary conditions.
