New Delhi, July 30 -- The issue of school closures and mergers in Uttar Pradesh due to low student enrollment was raised by the Samajwadi Party members in the Lok Sabha today.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Samajwadi Party members Naresh Chandra Uttam Patel, Neeraj Maurya and Dharmendra Yadav urged the central government to intervene, saying that such measures would have serious social consequences.
Naresh Chandra Uttam Patel called the policy as "discriminatory", saying,
"This so-called merger policy is against Dalits, the poor, and girls." He said that the closure of schools could lead to an increase in child labour and other grave issues affecting vulnerable communities.
Patel further alleged, "While schools were being shut dow...