Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader Saurabh Bhardwaj on Wednesday accused the BJP-ruled municipal corporations of having floated tenders to sell 14 MCD schools to private coaching centres.
Bhardwaj said that while the number of students studying in Delhi Government schools is exponentially rising, the headcount in MCD schools has reduced from three lakh to two lakh thirty thousand in the last few years. The AAP leader said that the BJP has given away MCD school buildings to its own people. “Private coaching institutes will now run in MCD schools. There are only 30-40 children left in several schools of the MCD and they do not even have enough students to run those schools. It is important to mention here that the Corporations keep claiming they do not have enough land for Mohalla Clinics but sell school buildings to private players,” he added.
Reacting to this, Delhi BJP Spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that the allegation is baseless as North DMC is not leasing or selling any of its schools to private coaching centres. “The civic body has tens of school buildings lying empty as certain areas especially in the City Zone have gone commercial with very little population left thus rendering schools useless,” he said.