GUWAHATI: IIT Guwahati bagged the second rank in a national level Swach Campus Ranking 2018 conducted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in New Delhi on Monday.
Best 51 higher educational institutions have been selected for Swachhata Ranking Awards in 8 different categories.
The category of cleanest technical institutions is topped by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in Coimbatore with IIT-G in the second spot and Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University in Bhubhaneshwar in the third spot.
It is to be mentioned that, it was only last year that the rankings were introduced by MHRD in order to encourage the educational institutions towards cleanliness.
Salient features of Swachhata Ranking Awards–
1. The Swachhata Rankings exercise has been initiated by Department of Higher Education to generate healthy peer pressure among higher educational institutions for keeping and maintaining hygienic campuses so that the environment for student learning becomes clean and leads to higher thinking.
2. Department has recognised that educational institutions should play the lead role in not only their in-campus hygiene but also by adopting villages around their area for promoting hygiene through awareness creation and other assistance.
3. This year’s rankings have received more than double the response from educational institutions compared to last year. More than 6000 institutions have participated. The parameters have been made more scientific to include aspects like rain water harvesting, solar power, quality of hostel kitchen apparatus, water supply system quality, maintenance method sophistication etc.
4. This year’s Rankings have brought out some very significant and interesting features of our higher educational institutions in the area of Swachhataand the way they are managing their campus environment.