Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar launched

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Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar launched the Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP) 2021 – 2022. The Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar was first instituted in 2016-17. The SVP 2021-22 is open to all categories of schools i.e. government, government aided and private schools in both rural and urban areas. The schools will assessed through an online portal and mobile app in six sub-categories- Water, Sanitation, Hand Washing with soap, Operation and Maintenance, Behaviour Change and Capacity Building and the newly added category on Covid-19 preparedness and response and the system will generate the overall score and rating automatically.