The Centre has selected three government schools of Haryana for the ‘Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar’ for the academic year 2017-18. The ‘Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar’ (SVP) was instituted in 2016-17 by the Union government to recognise, inspire and celebrate excellence in water, sanitation and hygiene practices in government elementary and secondary schools. The awards are given at the district, state and national levels. Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar would confer the awards to these schools in New Delhi on September 18. The Haryana schools which have been selected are Aarohi Model Senior Secondary School (AMSSS), Bhiwani Rohilla, Hisar, AMSSS, Ramgarh Pandwa, Kaithal and Government Primary School, Kirmara, Hisar.