From Cleanliness To Prosperity

Popular among students, Rajiv Tidke got the new stimulation of cleaning the surroundings of school when he was in the Z. P. school Kamari, Taluka Hadgaon, District Nanded. Teachers and students were always harassed because of the dirtiness spread in the surrounding area of the school for many years and students always faced illness. One day as usual, peons and students gathered in front of the school. The peon was not ready to open the lock. Rajiv Tidke saw that someone had applied human feces on the lock. After the instructions given to the peon, the lock was washed clean and the school opened. After this the prayer was recited but this incident made Rajiv Tidke restless. He saw litters of notebooks spread in the surrounding area of the school. Trained under the guidance of Scout, Rajiv Tidke lifted human feces in the school campus and threw it away out of the school. After seeing the task of the cleanliness of their teacher, students themselves lifted feces and threw out of the campus of school. During a short time, the campus was cleaned. This act remained the first cleanliness campaign of Rajiv Tidke. Absorbing this motivation in his soul, he cleaned the entire school and the campus of school with the help of the students and teachers by giving some time for this activity every day. Then with the curriculum activities during the WorkExperience periods Rajiv Tidke cleaned lanes of various areas, gutters, roads, junk areas of Kamari village with the co-operation of the sarpanch, citizens, colleagues, teachers and students. And with this real work, villagers along his students were imbibed the importance of cleanliness.

In this way, at each place where he got transferred, on holidays as well as during Work Experience periods, Rajiv Tidke practically organised cleanliness campaigns to convince the importance of cleanliness, joining hands with the sarpanch, citizens, colleagues and students. Especially the campaigns at Loha, Malegaon and Malkapur are noteworthy.

At present, Rajiv Tidke is the Headmaster of Z. P. school of Hataipura, Kandhar, Taluka Kandhar, the campus and the surrounding area of this school has been also cleaned with the co-operation of colleague teachers and students. The school is also digitalized recently without the government help, he raised money from the public fund and he also added his own amount to digitalize the school. The school walls are turned totally interactive to increase the interest of students in learning. Each student should easily recite to learn all formulae, words, proverbs, good thoughts, and quotes. For this achievement, the school is transferred beautifully to shape the nation's future pillars i.e. students. He has tried to reach the massage towards citizens, ‘Plant trees, save trees’ by arranging the tree plantation program practically in the surrounding area of the school. He is also conserving and protecting these trees all the time.

The entire experiences of his work, Rajiv Tidke has described in his mother tongue through his book, (Swacchtetun Samrudhikade - स्वच्छतेतून समृद्धीकडे ),FROM CLEANLINESS TO PROSPERITY, without any hesitation. This is the readable book which is the best guidelines to convince you the importance of cleanliness of your surrounding. Each teacher must read this book with the special purpose to transform society. After noticing the experiences of Cleanliness Campaigns of Rajiv Tidke through this book, if each teacher conducts the cleanliness campaigns for villages with the co-operation of the sarpanch, citizens, colleagues, and students, our India will definitely approach PROSPERITY through CLEANLINESS by taking inspiration from this book.