Teach cleanliness, morals to children: Governor to schools

​Hyderabad: Governor ESL Narasimhan on Wednesday stressed the need for clean and green environment with active participation of students. Participating in a programme organised to mark the Children’s Day, along with students of several schools, at Raj Bhavan, Narasimhan greeted the children from various schools in Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Yadadri-Bhongir and Suryapet districts in Telangana and Guntur in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

Addressing the principals, teachers and students on the occasion, the Governor said every year Raj Bhavan organises exhibition on a chosen topic for the benefit of the students’ awareness. This year a digital exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi has been organised with the theme ‘Peace Truth Ahimsa’, coinciding with the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi birth anniversary celebrations. The Governor said he would visit the schools on the days on which they undertake cleanliness or tree plantation campaigns, if informed in advance. 

All the schools should conduct one period on moral lessons, if it is not done already and it is the responsibility of teachers to check dropouts, and make best human beings out of the students. He said the schoolchildren should take up the ‘Clean the School’ activity on a designated day in every fortnight, accompanied by the teachers. 

He said each class should be made responsible to plant and maintain trees and plants on the school premises. “They have to water and maintain the plants and the responsibility lies on principals, teachers to ensure this. The schools, which stand in the forefront in cleanliness, tree plantation and maintenance, will be rewarded at the end of the year,” he added. 

As many as 600 schoolchildren from 25 schools took part in the Children’s Day celebrations held at Raj Bhavan. The Governor greeted them and interacted with principals and teachers of various schools, accompanying the students. Later, the schoolchildren went around the digital exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi.