In recent weeks, school students across the country have launched protests against the poor conditions of their schools. The protests are being referred to as the “Gen Alpha” protests, a nod to the recent “Gen Z” protests that broke out in Delhi and spread around India.
Protesting students have sat at the entrance gates to schools and on roads, locked up staff members, and marched to the local authorities’ offices to present their demands. Their demonstrations have prompted the Cockroach Janata Party to launch the School Thik Karo, or Fix the Schools, campaign.
Students and Cockroach Janata Party activists have uploaded videos to social media, showing dilapidated classrooms, some with plaster crumbling from the roofs, missing benches and desks, clogged toilets and discoloured drinking water.
The picture emerging from the protests is in stark contrast with India’s official data which states that 99% of government schools in the country have toilet facilities and 99.6% have drinking water facilities.
The data is hosted on the Unified District Information System for Education, also known as UDISE Plus.
It includes details for each school, such as the number of students enrolled, the number of teachers on staff, the number and status of classrooms, toilets, libraries and laboratories, and information about drinking water facilities.
But activists and...
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