Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia conducted a raid at municipal school in Kalyanpuri late on Thursday night after receiving complaints that the guard had been renting out classrooms at night. The two persons who were found staying at the school illegally during the raid were arrested by the police.
Addressing a press conference, Sisodia expressing his dismay said that he has directed the chief secretary to investigate the entire matter with the help of municipal commissioner and submit a report. The Minister said that he has also directed the education secretary to check all schools in the city to make sure that such thing is not repeated anywhere else.
Sisodia, who holds the Education portfolio, said that it is gross violation of safety norms and the government will not tolerate such acts that put students’ life in danger.
“It is a serious matter. Two unidentified men were found living in the classrooms for the last three to four months during night. They were even cooking food inside the classroom,” he said, adding that it is not possible that the school authorities were not aware of such happening.
“I have information that the same is happening in few other schools as well,” Sisodia said.
Sisodia accompanied by AAP councillor Kuldeep Kumar from Kalyanpuri ward along with the local police, searched the entire school premises and caught the two people living in the classrooms.
The Minister also uploaded the videos of the raid on micro-blogging site Twitter. The videos show clothes laid out on benches, while cooking gas, bag of sharp carpenter tools and other food items strewn on the floor.
The Delhi government has already conducted a massive police verification of all the staff in both government and private schools after the heinous killing of a seven-year-old schoolboy at neighbouring Gurgaon’s Ryan International school followed by a rape of a five-year-old girl at a private school in northeast Delhi.
Sisodia said during his meeting with Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, he told him that the police has already completed verification of 20,000 staff working in various schools in the capital.
