Pune, Feb 1, 2012: Pune based Kirloskar Foundation has teamed up with Rotary Club of Poona and Stavanger Rotary Club of Norway to build an all new toilet block at Maharashtra Arogya Mandal's Dada Gujar High School at Mohmadwai under a special initiative to improve health and hygiene in schools.

The new toilet block is spread across 650 square feet and will now provide clean water, space for hand wash and toilets for boys and girls. With this now the school will be able to maintain balance between the number of students and requirement of toilets for the same.

Mumbai, Feb 1, 2012: Students studying in civic schools have no place to read or play, according to a survey by Child Rights and You (CRY). Shedding light on the deplorable condition of 52 of the 1,150 civic schools in Mumbai, the survey said around 40% of the institutes do not have a playground while 73% are not equipped with libraries.
Other worrying aspects highlighted by the survey were that 50% of civic schools do not have proper toilets, 55% do not have ‘working’ water purifiers and there is no proper furniture in 20% of the institutes.

Mumbai, Feb 1, 2012: School education in India has undergone tremendous transformation. But the one aspect where change is felt the most has been in the fact that school fees now occupies a thick slice in the family budget pie, something that earlier went blissfully unnoticed.

Hamirpur, Jan 23, 2012: The government has provided the drinking water facility in every government school of the state through the Irrigation and Public Health Department.

Now, every government school in the state is being supplied drinking water either through pipes or through hand pumps installed on the school premises or near the school.

The government has submitted an affidavit in this regard in the Supreme Court informing it that every government school has been provided the drinking water facility.

The government, in collaboration with other stakeholders, has promised to address water and sanitation problems facing many primary and secondary schools in Tanzania.

This was said in Dar es Salaam at the weekend by Deputy Minister for Education and Vocational Training Philip Mulugo at the launch of WaterAid Tanzania’s five-year strategic plan 2011-2016.

He said his ministry would conduct a national school water and sanitation (Swash) campaign by promoting behaviour change in 6,000 primary schools.

Over the past 5 years CARE, Emory University’s Center for Global Safe Water, and Water.org, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Plus Community Impact (SWASH+) project, have worked to achieve sustainable and national-scale school WASH services in Kenya through applied research and advocacy. The project tested a multi-armed school WASH intervention through a randomized, controlled trial with multiple policy-relevant sub-studies.

Jaipur, Jan 16, 2012: Eighty-nine percent of primary and upper primary schools in the state have separate toilets for both girls and boys while there are only six schools which don't have any toilet facilities at all.

The Supreme Court on Friday extended its deadline of December 31 to March 31 for all the states and Union Territories to provide separate permanent toilets for boys and girls in schools across the country and said that it was an essential part of the Right to Education.

New Delhi, Jan 16, 2011: Out of the 304 CBSE schools surveyed by the Board across the country, 265 have been ranked below par on sanitation levels.

The schools have either been rated ‘black’ or ‘red’, with the latter implying “below 33 per cent adherence to norms”. The first-round survey has called the performance of such schools “grim”.

New Delhi, Jan 13, 2012: Students studying in schools run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will no longer have to worry about carrying water bottles to schools. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has agreed to the civic agency’s bid to set up water connections in its schools.

New Delhi, Jan 2, 2012: With water supply to Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) schools unlikely to improve, the corporation has proposed to distribute money to all its 10 lakh students to buy water bottles.

Each student will get Rs 100 for a bottle so that they can get water from home, which may be an irrational move as students may use up the money for other purchases. The Hindustan Times was the first to report the proposal on July 31 (MCD solution: No water, only bottles for kids). Initially, 98,000 children were distributed money in November.