Upgrading Schools

Special Campaign 5.0 focuses on improving governance and upgrading schools by reducing pendency in government offices and enhancing school environments through cleanliness drives, repairs, and beautification. Key activities include painting and whitewashing school buildings, ensuring functional toilets and drinking water facilities, and decorating walls with murals inspired by local art like Madhubani and Warli to create safe, inclusive, and stimulating learning spaces. This initiative also aims to institutionalize good governance by improving record management and reducing official backlogs

Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education, Government of India , is continuing the active implementation of Special Campaign 5.0 from 2nd to 31st October 2025 by institutionalising Swachhata in Government offices and enhancing school environments across the country, with a focus on:

• Minimising pendency and enhancing efficiency in official work by reviewing pendency in various categories and digitising records, weeding out obsolete files and improving record management.

The progress of Special Campaign 5.0 in Government offices and schools is as follows:

• Sprucing up school campuses to ensure safe and inclusive learning spaces by undertaking whitewashing, painting, minor repairs of electric items, keeping toilets/ drinking water facilities functional and beautification through murals and wall art inspired by local art forms like Madhubani, Warli etc.

• Strengthening environmental responsibility across the education ecosystem by ‘Reducing E-Waste’, which is also one of the 7 themes of Mission LiFE, a global concept given by the Hon’ble Prime Minister during COP 26 at Glasgow in 2021.

– On 9th October, 2025, DoSEL in collaboration with UNICEF organised a webinar on E-waste Awareness and Reduction, chaired by Shri Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, DoSEL. He underscored the importance of sensitising school students and teachers to responsible E-waste management and fostering environmental consciousness within the education ecosystem.

– During the webinar, Dr. Amarpreet Duggal, Joint Secretary, DoSEL, highlighted practical steps to reduce e-waste, such as preferring cloud storage over USB drives, using electronic devices to their full life cycle as well as exhorted school students to take the lead in recycling E-waste.

• The webinar witnessed enthusiastic participation of over 1.5 lakh participants.

• Now, E-waste Awareness and Management drives are being organised in Assam, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Chandigarh from 10th October 2025 under the aegis of Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE in more than 1000 schools as per E-waste Management Guidelines issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

• Schools have been encouraged to mobilise alumni networks, Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), School Management Committees (SMCs) and community engagement through Vidyanjali platform (https://vidyanjali.education.gov.in/). This collective effort seeks to deepen the spirit of Jan Bhagidari and nurture pride in schools.

Through these concerted efforts under Special Campaign 5.0, the Ministry of Education reaffirms its commitment to fostering clean, efficient and environmentally responsible institutions.

The Department of School Education & Literacy is coordinating closely with stakeholders to make Swachhata and efficiency an integral part of institutional functioning. The campaign is envisioned as a transformative step towards creating clean, efficient, and responsive systems in school education.