The Maharashtra government has decided to shut down 4,093 primary and secondary schools where the number of students is 10 or fewer than that. A survey was conducted to ascertain the number of schools that have 10 or fewer students,” Tawde said. Of them, students of 4,093 schools can be shifted as they could be shifted to new ones owing to their proximity. Of the 5,002 schools, 4,353 are zilla parishad-run schools, while the rest 69 are aided schools. The erstwhile Congress-NCP government too had conducted such a survey to close schools with 20 students or fewer than that.

Source: Hindustan Times December 02, 2017 19:07 UTC