Colony says no to school

But, the management changed and a public school was set up on the same piece of land. He alleges the management got approval to run the primary school by not informing the MCD that the land on which the public school came up belonged to the aided school. Further, he says, the management had started building the public school without getting its plan approved by the DDA/MCD. “The management was earlier running the public school under the name of Geeta Surana Public School. But, they changed the name to B.A.V Public School and got MCD approval,” he said. Now, the school is planning to increase the number of classes, he added.

This will create problems for Bapu Adarsh Vidyalaya. Its principal, Sulochana Gupta, said, “The introduction of the middle-school classes would affect the number of students that seek admission. We offer English medium for science and Maths subjects. But, now we’ll be reduced to a Hindi-medium school.” However, Indu Vij, the headmistress of the public school pleaded ignorance about the “illegal status” of the public school.

Meanwhile, sources in the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment said, the Land and Development officer has already started conducting investigations. K.D. Akolia, MCD Deputy Commissioner, said permission for running primary classes at the public school had been given 15 years ago, but the department would carry out investigations.