India, March 3 -- For at least a year now, a 800-metre road stretch outside two schools in northeast Delhi's Khajuri Khas has been filled with potholes and sewage water despite multiple complaints, forcing many students to skip classes, locals have alleged.

The road in Shri Ram colony has at least two schools located on it - a Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) pre-primary school, which is situated adjacent to Delhi government's Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya/Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya (SBV/SKV).

Hasmat Ali, 42, whose son goes to SBV, said the waterlogging makes it dangerous for students to access the school. "Sometimes, the water is knee-deep," he said. Another parent Dinesh Kumar, 51, told HT, that one of his children attends the pre-prim...