Panel to inspect 56 MCD ‘tent schools’
A division bench comprising Chief Justice of the Delhi high court Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan on Wednesday set up a three-member committee of lawyers to inspect the 56 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) schools where students are being taught under tents.
The committee, comprising S.K. Dubey, Najmi Waziri and Ashok Aggrawal has been asked to submit its report within four weeks. The court asked the committee to see whether the teachers are regularly attending the schools.
The bench directed the MCD officials to provide full cooperation to the members failing which strict action would be taken against them. “The present petition projects a shocking picture. It is asserted in the petition that students who are pursuing their studies at the primary level are not taught in classrooms but in tents in the capital of India,” the court said, after the MCD submitted that construction work in 56 schools is still going on and it would take another one-and-a-half years to complete it. Directing the MCD to provide a proper classroom atmosphere to the students in tents, the court said, “The question that emerges for consideration is whether the students should be imparted education at such a tender age under tents.” The court also observed that it is a matter of great wonder how these students are taught in tents in the scorching heat of summer, during the menace of rains and the chill of winters. Nearly 140 postcards were sent to the Chief Justice in July by various school children, describing the apathetic condition of the government and MCD-run schools in the capital.
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