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Sanitation programme from today

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The School Sanitation Programme, forming part of the Clean Kerala Mission, will be launched on August 4.

Education Miniser M.A. Baby will inaugurate the programme, aimed at inculcating values of hygiene in the minds of students, at a function to be presided over by Local Self-Government Minister Paloli Mohammed Kutty at the Cotton Hill Girls’ High School here. The day will also be observed as Dry Day at all district headquarters to ensure that water does not remain collected in any form in school compounds and turn into breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitoes.

The Education Minister has called upon school students to participate with enthusiasm in the garbage-free Kerala campaign aimed at preventing outbreak of diseases such as chikungunya and leptospirosis.

In a statement here on Sunday, the Minister said the programme launched jointly by the Education and Local Self-Government Departments would go a long way in ensuring that the surroundings of schools remained clean and free from garbage and stagnant water.

He also appealed to the students to refrain from throwing food leftovers on the school campus and to keep the school toilets clean. The students could consider forming School Health and Sanitation Clubs to make the activities to ensure hygiene in the school premises a democratic activity.

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