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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Fwd: [Right to Education] THE HINDU DELHI DECEMBER 02, 2010 MCD pulled up...



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From: Ashok Agarwal <notification+kr4marbae4mn@facebookmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Subject: [Right to Education] THE HINDU DELHI DECEMBER 02, 2010 MCD pulled up...
To: Palash Biswas <palashbiswaskl@gmail.com>


THE HINDU DELHI DECEMBER 02, 2010 MCD pulled up for poor infrastructure at schools in tents STAFF REPORTER The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for not ensuring infrastructure and presence of teaching staff at schools being run in tents. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan castigated the local body after a Court-appointed three-member committee of lawyers briefed it on the state of affairs at these schools. Porta cabins Later, the Bench asked the civic body to replace tents at these school with porta cabins. It also directed the Additional Commissioner (Education) of the civic body to visit these schools with the committee. The committee comprising Ashok Agarwal, Najmi Waziri and S.K. Dubey made the submission after visiting these schools. There are 41 schools run by the local body which are located in tents. The Bench had set up the committee after receiving as many as 200 letters written by children of these schools drawing the attention of the Court to the absence of the basic facilities and their negligence by the teachers. The Court had converted these letters into a public interest litigation in July. Ashok Agarwal had later submitted a paper clipping to the Bench in which it was reported that the civic body was running as many as 55 schools in tents. Mr. Agarwal also submitted that several of these schools were running under the open sky as the sanctioned tents for them were yet to arrive. The civic body in its reply to the Court's query admitted that at present 41 schools were being run in tents. It further said that it had planned to shift all these schools to concrete buildings in one-and-a-half years.
Ashok Agarwal 4:30pm Dec 2
THE HINDU DELHI DECEMBER 02, 2010

MCD pulled up for poor infrastructure at schools in tents

STAFF REPORTER

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for not ensuring infrastructure and presence of teaching staff at schools being run in tents.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan castigated the local body after a Court-appointed three-member committee of lawyers briefed it on the state of affairs at these schools.

Porta cabins

Later, the Bench asked the civic body to replace tents at these school with porta cabins. It also directed the Additional Commissioner (Education) of the civic body to visit these schools with the committee.

The committee comprising Ashok Agarwal, Najmi Waziri and S.K. Dubey made the submission after visiting these schools. There are 41 schools run by the local body which are located in tents.

The Bench had set up the committee after receiving as many as 200 letters written by children of these schools drawing the attention of the Court to the absence of the basic facilities and their negligence by the teachers.

The Court had converted these letters into a public interest litigation in July. Ashok Agarwal had later submitted a paper clipping to the Bench in which it was reported that the civic body was running as many as 55 schools in tents.

Mr. Agarwal also submitted that several of these schools were running under the open sky as the sanctioned tents for them were yet to arrive. The civic body in its reply to the Court's query admitted that at present 41 schools were being run in tents. It further said that it had planned to shift all these schools to concrete buildings in one-and-a-half years.

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