'New PM house, why not new govt schools in villages?' Dipke announces nationwide drive
Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, has launched the 'Sarpanch Challenge' to pressure village leaders into improving rural school infrastructure. The campaign aims to address long-standing neglect of basic facilities like water and toilets in government schools.
Why it matters
The initiative highlights the ongoing struggle for equitable educational infrastructure in rural India and the role of grassroots political activism.
NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke has announced a nationwide campaign to improve government schools in villages, seeking to address the "neglect of rural educational infrastructure".The campaign will be launched on August 15, with the CJP calling on citizens, parents and village leaders to work together to improve basic facilities in government schools.Dipke said he would launch the initiative from his village in Hingoli, Maharashtra, by approaching the village head and requesting him to take steps to improve government schools there.“The coming 15th August is our 80th Independence Day. But, if anything has been neglected or ignored the most in the last 80 years, it is the government schools in our villages,” Dipke said on Monday.“We have made a new Parliament, a new PM house. Why have we not been able to build new schools in our villages?
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