Inter FY students will get 50 marks for Swachh work
First year students who participate for 30 days in socially relevant activities will be awarded with two credits (50 marks) during their 1st year of studies.
As a part of Swachh Andhra, the state government will introduce this system from the next academic year. The aim of this scheme is to promote sanitation and hygiene among the college students and to encourage them to become agents of cleanliness in their colleges, homes and communities.
The AP State Council for Higher Education has directed the universities to introduce socially relevant activities as a part of the regular curriculum and to award two credits for this during the first year of study. APSCHE also said that the universities are at to make academic regulations which can be implemented from the next academic year.
The universities have been told to install the Swachh Andhra app and upload their activities. The education department has proposed to give two credits in each semester to those students who participate in extension activities like Swachh Bharat, village adoption, water conservation, tree plantation, and any other work that has social impact.
During the three-year degree course, six semesters will be conducted, that means each student will get 300 marks at the end of the completion of his degree. But the government felt that giving 300 marks was too high so it has confined it to first year students and to only 50 marks.
The government has also decided to involve college students to make AP “open defecation free” by March 2018. The government has asked to complete grouping the students and matching them with villages with the help of Swachh Andhra Mission and Commissionerate of College Education.
Council vice-chairman P. Narasimha Rao said the first year that they are introducing social activities from the next academic year and the students who participate will get two credits during their first year of study. Speaking to this newspaper, he said after participating for 30 days in social activities that students have to submit a report about their work.