Children of schools of Uttar Pradesh will now go from village to village to witness the development works of Jal Jeevan Mission. The Yogi Adityanath government will conduct exposure visits for students studying in council schools through the Jal Gyan Yatra programme.
For this, the Basic Education department has sent a letter to the basic education officers of all districts, instructing them to provide the authorised list of schools and children to the State Water and Sanitation Mission office on priority basis. The Jal Gyan Yatra will be organised by Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply department and Basic Education department.
The Jal Gyan Yatra programme will commence this month. Groups of students will be shown sewage treatment plant (STP) and water treatment plant during Jal Gyan Yatra. In the first phase of this free Jal Gyan Yatra, a trip to Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Mahoba and Jhansi will be made.During this visit, quiz competitions will also be organised in Sports and games.The students of the state will get information about the development works under the Jal Jeevan Mission’s Har Ghar Jal Yojana through Jal Gyan Yatra.