By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Department of School Education & Literacy of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has written a letter to the Commissioner of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) on the issue of opening at least two Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV) in the Okhla region of the national capital, a predominantly Muslim settlement.
Parwez Mohammad and Mohammad Aslam, two senior alumni of the Aligarh Muslim Unvieristy, who is the past too have been taking up the causes of the empowerment of the community, had written a letter to the MHRD “to set up a well equipped central hospital and two central schools in the most neglected Okhla Minority Cluster in the very backyard of Corridor of Power in Delhi.”
In a letter dated April 8, 2013, MHRD forwarded the said letter of the AMU alumni on the “proposal for opening of two Central Schools in minority-dominated Okhla” and seeking “comments in the matter to this Ministry urgently.”
The Okhla minority cluster has a dense population of more than 1 million without any basic facilities of health-care and good school education although the health and education is a very high priority sectors for the government of India.
The AMU alumni suggested to the MHRD that there are enough UP Government land available in their neighbourhood and if Government of India is sincere then both the ministry can write a letter to UP Government to transfer this land for these vital services, adding that these vast tracts of available land within the irrigation ministry of UP Government have no use for any irrigation department purpose and this is matter of willingness for the Central Government at Delhi to demand this land for their optimal use.
Speaking to TCN, AMU alumni Parwez Mohammad said, “it is positive sign from the MHRD and we look forward to the responses from the KVS,” adding, “soon we are going to meet Health and Family Welfare Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad and Minister of Human Resource Mr. MM Pallam Raju soon to place these formal demands with clear time-line for implementation and would like to invite both these minister to visit this region to understand the worst conditions of the people living without basic health and education infrastructure facilities.”