Varsities must name officer to see cleaning: UGC

The University Grants Commission has asked the universities to appoint a senior official to supervise cleaning and garbage collection activities in the campus, to ensure that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat campaign continues “in a scientific manner and on a sustained basis.”

The higher education regulator has asked the vice chancellors and heads of the universities and colleges to keep it informed abut the actions initiated by them on a monthly basis in this regard. The monthly report to be submitted by the varsities will be forwarded to the Human Resources Ministry every month as sought by Education Minister Smriti Irani.

”Since, most of the institutions are spread over large geographical areas and they have different units like hostels, playgrounds, teaching blocks, administrative blocks, etc, it is necessary that collection points for these units may be earmarked and a system created to lift the garbage from these points to the main garbage collection point where the entire garbage of the institution shall be collected,” UGC secretary Jaspal S Sandhu instructed the varsity heads two days back.

The local civic authorities should be informed about the main garbage point from where it could be lifted for “appropriate disposal”, he added.

The commission also directed the universities to share all the activities that they undertake to implement the Swachh Bharat programme on MyGov.in, a platform created by the Modi government for “citizen engagement towards good governance”.