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NDMC summer camps to include dance, drama and painting

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The Hindu              04.05.2013

NDMC summer camps to include dance, drama and painting

Staff Reporter

Summer camp at NDMC schools.

It is dance, drama and painting this summer for students of New Delhi Municipal Council schools with the civic body gearing up to conduct workshops by month-end. “So far the workshops were organised at Navyug Schools in Sarojini Nagar and Lodhi Road and at the N. P. Bengali Girls School in Gole Market. This year, workshops will be conducted in one more school at the N. P. Co-ed School in Ansari Nagar,” said an official. The civic body is expecting more than 500 students to participate.

 

Municipal schools to be renovated soon

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The Pioneer                25.04.2013

Municipal schools to be renovated soon

Classes in the SDMC schools would no longer be interrupted by the repair and maintenance works. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation will begin a massive renovation of its school buildings during this summer vacations, so that the classes run smoothly.

Earlier, the renovation works were carried out throughout the year that hampered the classes. But this time, the corporation has decided to complete all maintenance and repair work during the summer vacation itself. The summer vacation starts from May 10 and would continue till June 30.

“All kind of construction work related to maintenance of buildings, toilet blocks, other plumbering work and maintenance of fans and other electrical fittings will be completed before the schools reopen after the summer vacation. Tender for the work has already been done,” said a senior corporation official. The corporation will be spending Rs 3.6 crore on the renovation work.

“All works including whitewash, maintenance of broken doors and windows, electrification, maintenance of fans, maintenance of water supply network will be completed during the vacations,” said SDMC spokesperson Mukesh Yadav.

Apart from maintenance of the existing school infrastructure, the corporation is also constructing new classrooms and toilet blocks. The officials said while 422 classrooms have been constructed over the last one year, construction of 993 classrooms are in process. Similarly, the south civic body completed has completed construction of 97 new toilets, while work of 190 more toilets is on.

 

212 schools get fire safety papers

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The Pioneer                25.04.2013

212 schools get fire safety papers

In a major development towards ensuring safety of students, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation has managed to get fire safety clearance for over 200 school buildings. So far these schools were functioning without mandatory safety clearance. The SDMC has 588 primary schools while the number of school buildings is 270.

Schools operate in both morning and evening shifts. The officials said the fire department gave fire safety clearance to 212 schools after inspection of all the schools.

“The corporation had applied for fire clearance few months back after putting in place the infrastructure required as per the parameters of the fire department. The fire department officials conducted an inspection of all the schools buildings. The fire safety clearance has been granted to 212 schools buildings,” said spokesperson of South Corporation, Mukesh Yadav. The corporation officials said they would apply for safety clearance for other 58 schools buildings after introducing the changes as advised by the fire department. As per norms, the school building need to have provision of two exit doors for evacuation, the stairs need to be widened in some schools, the classrooms need to be amply ventilated to prevent choking of occupants during

fire, apart from installation of minimum number of fire extinguishers in all the schools. The officials said the civic body has increased the budget of fire safety to `10 crore during the current financial year (2013-14) from `8.4 crore Budget during the last fiscal.

 

Cancellation of municipal school rooms leased to NGOs, unions sought

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The Indian Express                23.04.2013

Cancellation of municipal school rooms leased to NGOs, unions sought

To reclaim its 628 municipal school classrooms for "solely educational purposes", the BMC education committee has demanded the lease to social institutions to use these rooms for purposes "other than educational" be revoked.

The cancellation could affect nearly 100 NGOs and unions that have rented the classrooms at nominal rates.

"The demand has been made based on a civic education department report that more than 90 per cent of the classrooms are being used for professionally run private classes. These organisations are running a business paying a nominal rent," said newly elected education committee chairman Manoj Kotak.

"The corporation is losing revenue," he wrote to additional municipal commissioner Mohan Adtani in-charge of public education.

The report based on on-going inspections claims professionally run private dance, music and tailoring classes and art galleries were found to operate from the classrooms.

Ninety-eight of the 628 classrooms rented out are being used by NGOs such as Praja Foundation, Dignity Foundation, Alcoholics Anonymous, Pratham and Naandi Foundation. Other lessees include Shiv Udyog Sena, Mumbai Shikshak Sena and Municipal Kamgar Sena.

In March, BMC had issued notices to six educational trusts to immediately vacate rented rooms in municipal school buildings.

While BMC wanted to use these as reading rooms, libraries and virtual classrooms, the trusts argued the notices should have been issued a year in advance to give time for the transition.

 

Need for water purifiers in all civic schools, say corporators

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The Indian Express                        11.04.2013

Need for water purifiers in all civic schools, say corporators

A PROPOSAL to fit water purifiers in BMC schools was discussed by corporators at the civic body's standing committee meeting on Wednesday. Dilip Patel of BJP, who mooted the idea, said 2,290 water purifiers should be purchased and fitted across BMC schools in the city. Patel also said funds should be allocated for the project.

"Clean water in schools is a basic requirement. The BMC should approach corporates and NGOs to sponsor the project," said Patel. "It is essential that quality purifiers should be fitted so that after a few months they are found lying defunct," he added.

The proposal is, however, at the nascent stage of discussion and is yet to be accepted by the standing committee. " The logistical details of the proposal need to be analysed further. There has to be technical assessment of such a project before it can be implemented," said leader of the house, Yashodhar Phanse.

In a survey of civic schools last year, it was found that while all schools had drinking water, there were no water purifiers in 55 per cent of them.

 


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