Delhi school runs from tent, goes to court for land
Mar 28, 2007 - 11:02:25 PM
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'Braving the vagaries of weather including dust storms, pouring rains, chilly winters and scorching heat, the school operates for the past 31 years with make-shift laboratory and moth-eaten furniture under the leaking tarpaulins,' said the petition.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] New Delhi, March 28 - A 57-year-old school, established by a minorities social organisation and running under a tent, Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking its direction to the government to allot land to it for construction of a building.
Disturbed by photographs depicting the pitiable condition of the students under torn tents, a division bench of Chief Justice M.K. Sarma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked, 'How could the authorities be so insensitive to the children?'
When the counsel for the Delhi Development Authority - sought to defend the government, the court tersely remarked, 'You identify with your client, but do not perform your duty as an officer of the court. Be sensitive to the problems.'
'There is no proper building, no books, no copy, no black board. How could you build the students for the future?' observed the court directing the Delhi government, DDA and Directorate of Education to file their replies in four weeks.
The Qaumi Senior Secondary School was established at Sadar Bazar near Bada Hindu Rao in central Delhi 57 years back to teach the children of the minority community and weaker sections of the society, said Firoz Bakht Ahmed of the Friends for Education in the petition.
The school has been running from the lawns of the Eidgah at Jhandewalan Extension in central Delhi since the building was demolished by the government in 1976 during the 'emergency rule', said Counsel M. Atyab Siddiqui.
'The school is a tented structure without even the basic facilities. About 600 students, mostly from the minority community, are studying in the school funded by the Director of Education.
'Braving the vagaries of weather including dust storms, pouring rains, chilly winters and scorching heat, the school operates for the past 31 years with make-shift laboratory and moth-eaten furniture under the leaking tarpaulins,' said the petition.
The DDA submitted that the school was allotted 2,556 square yards of land in 2001 at a subsidised rate but the allotment was cancelled, as the school authorities did not pay the amount of about Rs.15 million.
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