New Delhi: Chairman of the Delhi Commission for Children’s Rights Protection, Anurag Kundu, has been written to the Chairperson of the Air Quality Management Commission in the National Capital Region and a Co-Side (CAQM), MM Kutty, asked him to allow the reopening of the school.
The school has been closed since November 29 because of pollution.
It has resulted in the overall school closure which extends to almost 600 days.
With the Supreme Court allowing Caqm to make decisions on the sidewalk, Kundu has made Kutty’s request.
Safe! You have managed to throw your votoggin to see the results of research by the Institute of Energy Policy, Chicago University, Kundu said, “The school is closed because of poor air quality to protect children from severe conditions.
However, there is absolutely no evidence that the school closure reaches This goal.
The two-year study by the Institute of Energy Policy revealed that the level of pollution in the Delhi room was very high and the way above the limit of whose.
Because there was no significant difference in the outdoor pollution level and indoors, the closing of the school became irrelevant and misplaced Of course.
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Indicates that the school closing policy assumes that all families have air purifiers, added Kundu, “this is not a problem, except for a small portion of Delhi.
Because the family does not have an air purifier, the school closure policy achieves nothing.”
Previously, more than 500 parents had written to Kundu asked him to intervene and intervene in the Supreme Court to reopen the school.
In a letter to Kutty, Kundu shows how school closure causes learning losses, which can have long-term implications in children, the country’s economy and the growth of human development.
“Troubled closure for social, emotional and psychological growth of children, which is only possible in the school environment.
The closure that lasts several months has a negative impact on the social and emotional welfare of children and the continuation they will worsen the problem,” Kundu said.
Some parents also filed Kutty petition to allow the reopening of the school.
“The education of our children should not be the first victim of a pollution and school response must be the last to be closed and first opened.
Delhi is now ranked second in the world for the closing of the longest school behind Uganda only one week on November 30, based on 30 November, based on UNESCO data, “said Ask Aggarwal, a lawyer and mother of a girl.
“School closure has caused extraordinary learning and developmental losses.
While recognizing the phlegm from the pollution crisis and the risk causing the health of our children, we strongly urge Caqm and Delhi Government to allow schools to reopen in hybrid mode,” Agggarwal added.
