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Detailed explanation-1: -DEHRADUN: With the aim to create awareness towards cleanliness among children, Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday launched the School Hygiene Education Programme for the state.

Detailed explanation-2: -Consumer health and hygiene company Reckitt, under its flagship campaign Dettol Banega Swasth India has launched its ‘Dettol School Hygiene Education Programme’ across schools in Uttarakhand in Dehradun with it’s implementation partner PLAN India.

Detailed explanation-3: -School hygiene or school hygiene education is a healthcare science, a form of the wider school health education. The primary aims of school hygiene education is to improve behavior through useful practices connected to personal, water, food, domestic and public hygiene.

Detailed explanation-4: -To promote healthy behaviors among the children that they will inculcate for life. To detect and treat diseases early in children and adolescents including identification of malnourished and anemic children with appropriate referrals to PHCs and hospitals. To promote use of safe drinking water in schools.

Detailed explanation-5: -Every school in India must have seven essential requirements that make up a good school WASH programme. Separate toilets for boys and girls; there needs to be adequate, menstrual hygiene management facilities, private space for changing, adequate water for cloth washing, and disposal facilities for menstrual waste.