CHANDIGARH:
Sushil Kumar, a youth from Haryana has been awarded third prize at national level under Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Scheme.
While congratulating Sushil Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Haryana Higher Education,
Jyoti Arora said that Sushil is a law student of
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and he had been awarded third prize at national level under Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Scheme by the Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation,
Uma Bharti at New Delhi.
Arora said that the Central Government had launched 'Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Scheme' on May 25, 2018 for students of Higher Education to realise the dream of Swacch Bharat of Prime Minister, Mr.
Narendra Modi.
Under this scheme, each student getting registered had to adopt a village and implement Swachhta Abhiyan as a 100-hour project under the supervision of Nodal Officer. After completion of 100-hour internship project, they had to upload the report on a given website of the Central Government.
She said that 98,172 youth across the country had got themselves registered under this scheme whereas Haryana remained at first place in terms of maximum registration with 10,112 youth. Haryana was the first state which had been registered under Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Scheme with five points. As many as 475 Nodal Officers also got themselves registered for guiding the youth.
Arora said that 110 government colleges, 97 government aided colleges, 20 private colleges, all government universities and 10 private universities of the state participated under this scheme towards making this registration a success. The universities in the state selected best three interns and the State Selection Committee recommended best three entries to the Central Government, out of which the work of Sushil Kumar was adjudged as the best.
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