CJP launches nationwide campaign to improve village schools, asks parents to act

Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Monday announced a nationwide campaign to improve government schools in villages, calling on parents to conduct social audits of basic facilities and sarpanches to take responsibility for improving schools in their villages.

The campaign will be launched on August 15, with the CJP urging citizens, parents and village leaders to work together to address what it described as the “neglect of rural educational infrastructure”.

In a video message, Dipke said he would begin the initiative from his village, Hingoli in Maharashtra, by approaching the village head and requesting that government schools there be improved.

“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.

Dipke questioned why India had built a new Parliament and a new Prime Minister’s residence but had not been able to build better schools in villages.

“Do we not consider the children of farmers and labourers the future of our country?” he asked.

He said children in villages still have to walk long distances to attend school and often find basic facilities such as drinking water and toilets unavailable. He particularly highlighted the difficulties faced by girls because of the lack of washroom facilities.

Dipke said that if India wanted to make a fresh start on August 15, improving government schools should be one of its priorities.