Missing: boundary walls, bathrooms, blackboards
The Cockroach Janta Party has launched a campaign to audit rural schools in India, highlighting severe infrastructure deficiencies like lack of bathrooms and boundary walls. The initiative encourages locals to document these failures to pressure authorities into improving educational facilities.
Why it matters
It highlights the persistent gap in basic infrastructure between rural and urban education systems in India, sparking grassroots activism.
O n August 10, Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), said in a video that since Independence, no government has been able to provide students in rural areas with the same facilities as those available to students in urban areas. He pledged to begin checking schools in the district from which he hails, Hingoli in Maharashtra, and request sarpanchs to improve the situation.
“We have constructed a new Parliament and a new residence for the Prime Minister. Why, then, are we not able to construct new schools in our villages? Do we not consider the children of farmers and labourers as the future of our country,” he asked.
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