SC junks NGO's plea on poor condition of Madhya Pradesh schools
The Hindu
Supreme Court dismisses NGO plea on poor conditions in Madhya Pradesh schools, directs them to approach High Court.
The Supreme Court has refused to entertain an NGO's plea on the condition of State-run schools in Madhya Pradesh.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra asked the NGO Social Jurist to approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
"The petitioner would be at liberty to move the High Court under Article 226 of the Constitution. The petition is accordingly dismissed with the grant of liberty in the above terms," the bench said.
The NGO, in its petition, attached several pictures to highlight the "poor" conditions, including dilapidated buildings, of as many as five schools in the Khajuraho district of the state.
"It is respectfully submitted that these are only samples which clearly indicate that lakhs of students enrolled with Madhya Pradesh government-run schools are studying not only in dangerous school buildings but also studying in school buildings not having adequate desks, benches and adequate water supply," lawyer Ashok Agarwal, adviser to Social Jurist', said in his PIL.
The plea said the government schools should have state-of-the-art buildings.
"It is also submitted that no sweeper is posted in any of the schools due to which all the washrooms remain in unhygienic condition...there is a severe shortage of teachers in the schools compared with numbers of students enrolled. The government of Madhya Pradesh must immediately make arrangements for teachers for students," it said.
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