Rajputana Rifles school students to be shifted

New Delhi, August 5

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed forthwith shifting of the students studying in a dilapidated 100-year-old school building in the cantonment area here and asked the Army and the AAP government to immediately accommodate them in their schools. A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar observed that there was an emergent situation of shifting the students as the building of the Rajputana Rifles Heroes Memorial Senior Secondary School here was in a dilapidated condition.

The 300 students would be temporarily shifted to two schools — one maintained by Delhi Cantonment Board and another by the Delhi government, it said.

“In view of willingness showed by the respondents (Army and Delhi government), we hereby direct them to immediately accommodate Rajputana Rifles Heroes Memorial Senior Secondary School students to the schools of the respondents because the building is in dilapidated condition,” the court said.

It also asked the authorities to provide transportation to the students to and from the schools for six months. It has alleged that the school lacks basic amenities —PTI