The Skill and Vocational Education (SAVE) Day is observed and celebrated every year. The main programme has been arranged organised by the National Institute of Cleanliness Education and Research (NICER) in association with the National Community College for Skill Development at New Delhi on 12 March 2017 from 9 am to 1 pm in the Auditorium of India International Centre, 40 Lodi Estate, New Delhi with the theme "Skilling for Swachchh Bharat (Cleaner India").
Addressing the Members of the Press including the print and
the electronic media, the Director and Convenor of the
National Institute of Cleanliness Education and Research
(NICER), Dr. Utkarsh Sharma said that the main aim is to
vocationalise the existing careers in the areas of
cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation through the preparation
of a competent cadre of young professionals in these areas
by providing different types of entrepreneurial skills with
a special reference to cleanliness, hygiene, toilet
maintenance, garbage management, sewage disposal, mitigation
of water and sanitation born diseases, solid and liquid
wastes management. Discussing about the constitution of G-51
(Group of 51 Universities for promoting Cleanliness, Hygiene
and Sanitation Education (CHASE) in India, he further added
that all the members of the G-51 will soon be designing the
curriculum besides implementing cleanliness centric
activities under the catchment areas of the respective
universities in all the States as well as the Union
Territories of India.
Explaining the urgent need for enabling the slogan "Catch
Them Young" to further gather momentum, he assured that this
slogan as propounded by the World Renowned Institution
Builder and Environmentalist Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi will
reach the grassroot level in all the villages, towns and
cities of India for ensuring the cleaning and greening of
India's mother earth.
He concluded with the announcement that only 35 Schools of
the National Capital Region has been selected for receiving
the Awards out of the existing inventory of more than 3500
Schools in Delhi and the neighbouring towns and cities..