Odisha

Innovative Practices followed in the State :

Hand Wash Abhiyan

For hygiene of students hand wash Abhiyan has been taken-up in all schools. Health and hygiene, both contribute to the nutrition of students. A bar of soap or A bottle of hand wash liquid is very insufficient to cater to the need of hand washing and dish cleaning of so many students within the lunch break. So the disposed off the thrown away cold drinks plastic bottles have been collected. Two to three small holes have been made on the cap of the bottle. The hand wash liquid (Dettol or lifebuoy) purchased from the market is diluted with the water and 20 to 30 plastic bottles filled with diluted hand wash liquid are kept ready for use by 200 children or students.

Benefit:
  1. It is cost effective.
  2. It save the time of the children
  3. It reduces the rush and congestion among the students.
  4. It ensures protection of environment by re-use of the plastic bottles.

Multi Tap Multi Cap System.

Children need water for drinking purpose and washing purpose while taking mid-day meal. But a school having a single tube-well or a single tap-water source cannot serve the above purpose for 100 or more children. The innovative device of multi-tap water source at the tube-well point or at the pipe source point has been introduced with little expenditure of a plastic pipe, few taps and if required a rubber pipe. With the help of this rubber pipe the multi-tap water source can be installed in any suitable place. 2000 model Hand wash stations have been set up.

  1. It is cost effective.
  2. It save the time of the children
  3. It reduces the rush and congestion among the students.
  4. It is so flexible that with a pipe the multi-tap water source can be extended from the water source to any convenient place.

Model Dining Hall.

Government issued instructions to all districts for construction of model dining hall for taking safe & hygiene mid-day meal.


(Source : AWP&B- 2016-17 State write up)