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Mumbai: We need civic-run CBSE schools too, say Deonar residents
Updated On: 20 February, 2023 06:44 AM IST | Mumbai | Sameer Surve
Despite demand, there are few seats to go around while priority is given to applicants living nearby
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The regular Shivaji Nagar municipal school in Govandi
Rawwab Shaikh, a cab driver who resides at Kamla Raman Nagar opposite the Deonar dumping ground in Govandi, has always hoped his daughter Zunaira, 2, would one day attend a Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) school. However, there is no civic-run CBSE or state-board English-medium school in the area. The nearest Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-run CBSE school is located at Chembur—about 5 km away—but its administration denied admission to the girl as her family lives more than a kilometre from the school premises.
Shaikh, who also has another young daughter, Anayza, told mid-day, “I was born here. I studied in an Urdu-medium school. Now the times have changed. It was my dream that Zunaira should study at a CBSE school. I earn around R25,000 per month. I can`t afford private school fees. I applied to the civic-run Aziz Baugh CBSE school at Chembur. The administration rejected the application. When we sent an email asking the authorities why they had rejected the form, they replied that it was because we don`t reside one kilometre from the school.”
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