With Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections round the corner, senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and MLA, Vishesh Ravi, on Saturday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled MCD has gone as far as taking away the right to education of Dalit students by closing one school after the other in the city.
Ravi said the BJP-ruled MCD is so cruel that it is shutting a 60-year-old primary school on Tank Road forcing students to go two kms away for education in another school. “The school being shut caters to underprivileged and Dalit households; why does the BJP not want their children to study,” said Ravi.
“For the last two months, we have been continuously exposing the distatorous state of the schools of MCD. Especially in Karol Bagh, MCD has sold several schools and given contracts to build parkings there,” he said.
“After selling half the land of a school on Pusa Road, a parking project is being developed there. But their thirst for money knows no bounds. There is a place called Anandpuri Khan near Tank Road in Karol Bagh, where MCD runs a primary school which on 7 February received an order saying that this school will soon be shut and that the children studying in the school will be transferred to the school located about two km from there,” said Ravi.
“I want to ask the BJP ruled MCD, why are you taking away the right to education from the children of poor downtrodden families? Why are you suddenly closing a 60 year old school which was built for the poor? We request the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi to take cognizance of this matter as well,” Ravi added.