The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is set to launch a campaign aimed at improving facilities in tribal schools located in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district. This initiative will kick off on September 17, according to founder Abhijeet Dipke, who announced the plans on Wednesday.
What will the campaign focus on?
Dipke had urged parents, sarpanches and local communities to take responsibility for improving basic school facilities. The campaign began with a visit to a government school in his native village of Santuk Pimpri in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district. CJP had also sought information from state education ministers on school repairs, teacher vacancies, government funding, digital learning facilities, toilets and sports infrastructure.
He also cited concerns over the participation of tribal students in higher education, claiming that Scheduled Tribe students accounted for 22.8% of enrolment in higher education and that only 130 ST applicants had secured admission to IITs.
The initiative, titled “Adivasi School Thik Karo”, will focus on problems faced by students in tribal regions, including inadequate infrastructure and limited access to educational facilities. The new initiative comes a month after CJP launched its nationwide “School Thik Karo” campaign to improve government schools in rural and urban areas.
