It has been a long unending wait for former school principal Ranjana Jaywant Bhagat. The ex-headmistress of Shivam Vidya Mandir Primary school, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)-aided school at Bail Bazaar, Kurla, is fighting a lone battle against the civic body since 2011, the year she retired from her service. The school has not paid her salary from June 2008 to February 2011, amounting to R6 lakh and has also denied her of her pension from the day she retired amounting to R2.64 lakh. The reason: The municipal body holds her responsible for not paying the school’s one-month electricity bill worth Rs 78,000.

Ranjana Jaywant Bhagat (61), the former principal of Shivam Vidya Mandir Primary school