Education for all? It?s not a happy picture

Updated on: Sunday, December 18, 2011

Broken benches, mucky water dispensers, locked/leaking toilets and dilapidated rooms - This has become a common sight in many of the MCD and Delhi government buildings in the city. They call them schools.

The still dismal infrastructure of these schools was captured by the volunteers of NGO Child Rights and You (CRY) over the last couple of months. These photographs were put together in an exhibition outside Dilli Haat on Saturday to show the real picture of education in the city to general public. By the end of the day, more than 750 people signed the petition that will be sent to the Prime Minister to demand the basic facilities in a school as guaranteed by the RTE.

Little seems to have improved in these 'non-private' schools since the fundamental right to education came into being in April 2010. The volunteers visited different schools only to find unclean drinking water, lack of toilets and unsafe premises as common problems plaguing these schools.

Times of India

Education for all? It?s not a happy picture

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