‘School Thik Karo’: CJP audits Maharashtra govt school, students flag lack of basic facilities

Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke launched the ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign from his native village Santuk Pimpari in Hingoli district of Maharashtra today. The campaign focuses on improving basic facilities and infrastructure in government schools. Earlier today, Dipke hoisted the national flag at his village on 80th Independence Day and visited the government school as part of the campaign. CJP team conducted an audit of the school to identify problems faced by students and assess the availability of basic facilities. The students highlighted several issues, including the lack of benches, drinking water and clean toilets.

Students also pointed to a non-functioning computer and shortage of teachers. The team also saw broken windows and poor water supply among other problems at school.

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“Even after 80 years of Independence, our govt schools still lack basic amenities,” Dipke said in a video shared by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). He also spoke to the village sarpanch about the problems and sarpanch assured him that the Panchayat would address the issues within a week.

Dipke said he was proud to return to his village and hoist the national flag but was saddened by the condition of the government school.

“I am very proud to have had the opportunity to come to my village and hoist the flag, but seeing the condition of the government school here makes me very sad too, that even 80 years after independence, we are still unable to build good schools for our children's education!” he said.

'School thik karo' campaign

The campaign was announced earlier by Dipke as a nationwide initiative aimed at improving government schools in villages. “We have formed teams who will visit villages and request people and sarpanchs to take steps to improve the condition of schools, because we want to get this done with everyone's participation,” Dipke said.

He also urged parents and local residents to visit government schools and report deficiencies.