Delhi Government’s Directorate of Education (DoE) has sought report from the Deputy Director (education) on the shifting of south Delhi’s prestigious school Mirambika Free Progress School. According to officials, the DoE has directed the Deputy Director (Education) to conduct an inspection and submit a factual report on the Mirambika school shifting. Parents alleged that the school was moved into an ashram as building in which it has been running since 1991 was vacated to make way for an engineering college in the middle of the session.
According to media reports, students of Mirambika Free Progress School in South Delhi have been studying in corridors and stairways of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for a week, after the management decided to shift the school overnight to the adjoining ashram premises. The school administration has informed the parents that it cannot run the school at the original premise due to threat of land lease cancellation as it mentions the building as college. However, the Delhi Development Authority has denied any such threat to the school. The school is run by the Aurobindo Education Society. The ashram authority is now planning to build an engineering college on the premises.
Mirambika was founded in 1981. In ‘84, Delhi Development Authority allotted Sri Aurobindo Education Society land for a “college building”. Permission was granted for a teacher-training and research institution — essentially, a ‘college’ — with a school in 1986.
