In a clear violation of a High Court order, the MCD primary school at Trilokpuri in East Delhi also houses a MCD dispensary on its premises.

While this illegal occupation has opened to school to all those visiting the dispensary, it has also deprived the students of a classroom.

The MCD school at Trilokpuri, Mayur Vihar Phase-II, where a 53-year-old Class II teacher was stabbed by an unidentified teenager on October 23, violates a High Court Order that states, “MCD cannot open its offices in school premises and deprive students of their classrooms.”

In fact a contempt notice has been sent to the Commissioner of MCD by advocate and social jurist Ashok Agarwal. “MCD has allowed its dispensary to continue on the premises of the MCD Primary School, Trilokpuri; this is tantamount of contempt of court.”

There have also been protests by parents, who demand that the dispensary be shifted from the school premises. No action, however, has been taken.

Sources note that the school and the dispensary have a common unrestricted entrance. “Last week’s incident of stabbing a teacher could have been avoided had there been a separate entrance to the school and the dispensary,” sources said.

In a similar incident in 2002, the Delhi High Court had directed a MCD school in Bowana, Northwest Delhi, to remove the dispensary from its premises, which was occupying two classrooms, one multi-purpose room and a toilet block.

“It was depriving about 750 students of Class I to Class V of these facilities,” Agarwal said.

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