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On Thursday, activists alleged that owing to a &ldquo;shortage of schools&rdquo; in the city, over 80,000 children have been denied admission to government schools in the recent past; the merger-closure policy has also led to a &ldquo;steep decline&rdquo; in the...'
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‘Over-crowded’ Classrooms, Girls Dropping Out: Delhi Govt Comes Under Fire Over Merger of Schools -Ronak Chhabra

-Newsclick.in On Thursday, activists alleged that owing to a “shortage of schools” in the city, over 80,000 children have been denied admission to government schools in the recent past; the merger-closure policy has also led to a “steep decline” in the classroom teaching-learning process, according to them. New Delhi: The continuing merger of state-run schools in the national capital in the name of rationalisation has come under flak for leading to “severe over-crowding” in classrooms and a surge in cases of student dropout, with educationists, teachers, and parents alike questioning the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) – led Delhi government’s much-touted education model on Thursday. In a press conference called by Joint Forum for Movement on Education (JFME), activists said that the merger or closure of government schools, which is carried out by the AAP government in tune with the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, is jeopardising the future of lakhs of students. The activists alleged that owing to the “shortage of schools” in the city, over 80,000 children have been denied admission to government schools in the recent past. The policy of merging schools has also led to a “steep decline” in the classroom teaching-learning process, according to them. In the national capital, the merger of schools is often carried out according to the policy laid out by the Directorate of Education (DoE), which is aimed at converting evening-shift schools into morning-shift ones. Besides, over the years, the decision to merge a school is also driven by the objective to achieve optimum utilisation of available resources. Resultantly, a total of 48 schools run by the Delhi government were merged in the last seven years, the DoE informed in a reply earlier in June this year to the RTI filed by The Times of India. Out of these, most, 32 have been ordered to be merged in the academic year 2022-23. Please click here to read more.