While most schools seem to have given Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan a miss on October 2, officials from the education department were kept busy. A circular dated October 1 had instructed the officials to compile a list of schools in their division which don’t have toilets and initiate the process of constructing them on Gandhi Jayanti itself.

President Pranab Mukherjee cleans a school in West Bengal’s Birbhum district as part of the Abhiyaan. Pic/PTI