AHMEDABAD: The state government claims that 3 lakh students of private schools have enrolled in government-run schools over the past five years, but the municipal school board says no smart school has been set up since 2014. The board of the AMC revealed this information in a written reply to an RTI query.
Alpesh Bhavsar, an RTI activist, filed a 11-point RTI application with the municipal school board in June this year, seeking to know how many high-tech schools had been set up since the 2014-15 academic session. He was informed that no high-tech school has been made by the AMC’s school board since 2014-15.
Bhavsar also sought to know what new facilities had been made available in the schools, whether these were constructed at existing facilities or at new places, and how many of these were English-medium schools.
“I also asked for the details of the funds that the state government has allotted since 2014 for making these high-tech schools. I was told that the information is not available as the schools have not been made,” he said. “At a time when the government pats itself on its back for improving education, the reality is that not a single smart school has been made by the AMC school board since 2014.”
