India, Sept. 12 -- The Shikshak Nyay Manch, a union of teachers working in schools run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), has flagged the lack of school maintenance fund payments to the schools run by the corporation, for the past two academic sessions. The union also stated that thousands of students in the schools have not received money to buy their school uniforms.

Union members and teachers stated that due to the repair and maintenance fund not being released, large amounts of work has remained paused. "Every school is supposed to get around 50 thousand to 1.5 lakh rupees, depending on the number of rooms it has. This is already a small amount, but no school has gotten even a single rupee for this session and the last. Due...