New Delhi: Over 3 lakh students in Delhi do not have access to primary schools, but that is not stopping the city municipal corporation from auctioning off schools.
Reports say 15 MCD schools may go up for auction and may soon be turned into malls or hotels.
The MCD runs 65 per cent of primary schools in Delhi.
The civic body proposes to bring 60 school campuses under the hammer for construction of commercial properties.
The proposal comes even as it struggles to cater to the educational needs of 9 lakh students of low income groups.
The MCD though justifies the decision saying these schools have been lying vacant.
The proposal to auction 15 of the identified schools has been forwarded to the MCD Commissioner.
The MCD has assured that a detailed study will be carried out to ensure the proposal is in public interest before it is carried out.
Sixty five per cent of primary schools in the city is run by MCD. 60 campuses to be auctioned.
School in Ashok Nagar is on 1.5 acres; another in Moti Nagar East (2,350sqm) - all areas where no fresh land is available.
MCD says schools are unused while experts say 3-5 lakh children in city have no access to primary schools.
The MCD decision is already generating heat. Delhi's education minister Arvinder Singh Lovely says that the decision is against the law.
Lovely said, “We have told them a number of times to give us the empty schools. We have a shortage of schools. The kids are more in number. This kind of a decision is against the law.”
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