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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, FEB. 18. The Delhi High Court today sought replies form the Delhi Government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on alleged lack of basic amenities in most schools run by them in the Capital. Taking note of an application filed by Ashok Aggarwal, a Delhi High Court lawyer, a Division Bench comprising Justice B.C. Patel and Justice B.D. Ahmed asked the two respondents to file their respective replies to the concerns raised in the application by March 4. In the application, Mr. Aggarwal submitted that majority of schools in the Capital run by the Government and the Corporation lacked proper drinking water facility and separate toilet blocks. He stated that in October 2002, the city Government had told the High Court that it would replace tin sheds in government schools with concrete roofs but so far nothing had been done in that direction. Referring to areas having child labour concentrations, Mr. Aggarwal urged the Court to direct the Government and the local body to set up residential schools so that the children in these areas could go to school as well as eke out bread for their poor families. He further said that there was no government school at Mukundpur in North-West Delhi having a population of about 1.5 lakh. Though, the Corporation ran a school but it did have sufficient classrooms to accommodate around three thousand students, forcing half the students to sit out in the open, and on top of it all was that it no drinking water and toilet facilities. The applicant also stated that the High Court had earlier set up a committee comprising the Chief Secretary of the city Government, the Municipal Commissioner, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and the Chief Engineers of the Public Works Department (PWD) asking it to study and submit recommendations to improve the basic amenities in the schools run by the city Government and the Corporation but so far nothing had come to the Court from it.
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