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Mumbai: Half the year gone yet BMC students await new uniforms
Updated On: 07 October, 2022 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Dipti Singh
Teachers allege even shoes distributed recently, were mostly of wrong size; civic education officer says uniforms may be given before Diwali break
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The civic body decided to bring in a new uniform for students of all BMC-run schools from this academic year, but the uniforms are yet to be distributed. File pic
Students of BMC-run schools are yet to get new uniforms even as the first half of the academic year is over. Shoes that were distributed to them randomly turned out to be the wrong sizes for most, teachers alleged. In addition, teachers were asked to distribute money instead of a few items in school kits this year. While the BMC is getting new school buildings and upgrading existing ones and has already rebranded civic schools as Mumbai Public Schools in February 2020, the system seems to be in shambles. Currently, 2.98 lakh students attend 1,150 civic schools.
To encourage more students to enrol in civic-run schools, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation started providing 27 educational items to them. These items are supposeed to reach students on the first day of school. The distribution has been delayed since the scheme was launched in 2007. However, this year has broken all records. This year, all civic-run schools reopened on June 13, but they had to wait for most of the articles.
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