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Even though these schools have books, they don't have an ideal library specified with sitting facilities for the students to sit and read or take notes.

Civic schools lack basic reading room facility

Three out of seven schools have certain books for students to read or refer, but the libraries don’t meet the ideal library standards in the schools.

13 Oct 2018 1:40 AM

These libraries will include all genres of books for students inclu-ding storybooks, poetry books and autobiographies.

25 BMC schools to get e-libraries soon

Hundreds of e-books to be made available free of cost.

13 Oct 2018 1:38 AM

School playgrounds too are being reconstructed.

BMC upgrades facilities for disabled students

The civic body’s education department will introduce special and upgraded ramps, toilets and playgrounds for the students.

13 Sep 2018 1:04 AM

Most of these schools have zero students in class 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 or have between four to 10 students in total.

40 BMC schools to shut due to fewer students

Students will be shifted to adjoining BMC schools.

28 Aug 2018 2:07 AM

Students admitted and being treated at the hospital.

Parents blame civic body for kids’ illness

The tablets have been part of the civic body’s health improvement scheme for school children for the past many years.

11 Aug 2018 2:28 AM

Other affected children study at BMC’s Urdu School Number 1. (Photo: PTI)

12-year-old girl dies, parents blame pills given in school

The children had complained of nausea, giddiness and stomach ache.

11 Aug 2018 1:45 AM

BMC school students were given iron, folic acid and deworming tablets as part of a Central government scheme to fight anaemia in children. (Representational Image)

Mumbai: 12-yr-old dead, 160 students hospitalised after having iron tablets

A BMC official said the parents of 161 other students of the school 'panicked' and brought them to the hospital.

10 Aug 2018 5:56 PM

Due to lack of students many vernacular-medium schools are getting shut.

Teachers to be taught English

Marathi school teachers will be placed in English-medium municipal schools.

07 May 2018 1:51 AM

In the year 2015, the department even started Mumbai Public Schools (MPS) for the students.

Fewer BMC std 8 schools even after RTE act

According to the department, it will take time to establish it in all the BMC schools in the city-which is around 2,500.

09 Apr 2018 1:44 AM

During 2003-04 to 2009-10, over one lakh students dropped out of the civic-run schools after class 7. (Photo: Representational)

No class 8 in BMC schools forces over 1 lakh students to drop out

RTI queries reveal that as many as 1,017 schools of the total 1,195 schools do not have class 8 facility.

05 Apr 2018 6:05 PM

The class 9 were provided tabs in the beginning of the academic year.

Term ends, BMC schools yet to receive tabs

A provision of Rs 12 crore has been allocated for students of 149 schools.

05 Feb 2018 2:28 AM

These schools were shut down last year as they did not even get a single student. The scheme will be implemented under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds. (Representational image)

Civic body to revive 35 schools under PPP

For the academic year 2018-19, the civic body has proposed 649 bi-lingual schools, considering the demand for English language schools.

03 Feb 2018 2:27 AM

The objective is to shift students into these camps for a temporary period till work is underway to prevent them from missing classes.

BMC mulling transit camps outside schools

BMC education committee has suggested to the education department to consider setting up transit camps.

02 Feb 2018 1:52 AM

The inspections are being conducted to make sure the students are well-informed about the process of filing seat number, examination centre number and the question paper (QP) code.

Municipal body examines schools’ SSC preparations

The civic body’s education department has assigned all the beat officers and administrative officers to every ward to inspect the respective schools.

24 Jan 2018 12:51 AM

They said that the teachers were burdened with clerical work including making reports, filing online forms and completing formalities prescribed by the Maharashtra State Board. (Representational image)

Burdened civic teacher sunable to give their 100 per cent

Now however, there are the 8, 9 and 10 classes as well, which means more work.

27 Dec 2017 2:37 AM

The committee members while discussing this matter with Ms Gudekar highlighted to consider the safety factors of the students while taking them to the picnic.

All Class 4, 7 BMC students to get picnic time

Till last year, the corporation took only the rank holders for their annual picnic.

28 Nov 2017 2:15 AM

The BMC has allotted a token amount of `1 crore to every zone specially for bettering the infrastructure of the schools.

BMC schools can get repairs done in 24 hours

BMC has allotted a token amount of Rs 1 crore to every zone specially for bettering the infrastructure of the schools.

21 Nov 2017 2:29 AM

Though these schools will have the liberty to amend the rules and regulations in their schools, the principals of the schools will be appointed by the BMC.

35 municipal schools given liberty to choose edu board

Till now, all the BMC-run schools are under the State Board as that is the only option these schools are provided by the state government.

21 Nov 2017 2:26 AM

The percentage of malnourished students in municipal schools has increased from eight per cent to 34 per cent in the last three years.

Malnourished students in municipal schools jump to 34 per cent in 3 yrs: Study

In 2015-16, the percentage of malnourished children in class I was as high as 43 per cent and 42 per cent for girls and boys respectively.

20 Nov 2017 1:48 AM

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