The Navodaya Vidyalayas have been envisaged as pace - setting institutions, centres of educational excellence, providing opportunities for development, not only to JNV students, but also to the children of neighbouring rural area schools through sharing of facilities. Leadership qualities and other educational concerns that are linked to community and national development are also inculcated through pace - setting activities. Interaction of staff and students of JNV with their counterparts in neighbouring schools, participation in joint community efforts, adaptation of village for awareness programs are some of the pace – setting activities under taken by Navodaya Vidyalayas. The concept of Swachh bharath mission is also another area of concern for Navodaya Vidyalaya as a pace setting activity for national development. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is also called as the Clean India Mission or Clean India drive or Swachh Bharat Campaign. It is a national level campaign run by the Indian Government to cover all the backward statutory towns to make them clean. This campaign involves the construction of latrines, promoting sanitation programmes in the rural areas, cleaning streets, roads and changing the infrastructure of the country to lead the country ahead. This campaign was officially launched on 145th birth anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi on 2ndof October in 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi. It is launched as a responsibility of each and every Indian citizen to make this country a Swachh country.