On Independence Day, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) will launch a nationwide movement under the banner “School Thik Karo” with the aim of making a government school in a rural area better equipped.
CJP was known as the campaign was announced by the founder Abhijeet Dipke on Wednesday, days after he disclosed plans for a nationwide campaign to improve the condition of village schools.
Dipke said that “Children living in villages don’t deserve to suffer for a lack of poor facilities at schools after 60 years of Independence” in a post on the social media platform, “X”.
The campaign would target development of government schools in villages and emphasize the need of citizens to do something for the problems issues faced by the rural students, he opined.
Campaign to Begin From Dipke’s Village
Dipke currently is trying to convince the sarpanches and parents to assume what he terms a “social and moral responsibility” for creating infrastructure to better schools, and is aiming to steer the group into venturing as much as possible towards acting as a political party and not a pressure group.
He will launch it from his village in the area of Marathwada of Maharashtra.
For the initiative, Dipke said he would go to the local sarpanch and will call for betterment of government schools in the area.
Work on basic facilities
Dipke has been scathing about what he said is the longstanding lack of quality in government-run schools in rural areas and why kids in villages are not getting the kind of facilities that are found in larger cities.
He also pointed out the difficulties being faced by young girls studying in the schools that do not have basic infrastructure.
In a call for the people to start a new attempt to enhance the education of the rural areas, Dipke appealed ahead of the August 15 Independence Day, the 80th Independence Day of India.
The ‘School Thik Karo” program is likely to be targeted at identifying the gaps in the school infrastructure and make a push towards the local communities to collaborate with authorities to fill these spaces.