For the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), whose draft for the upcoming civic budget is Rs 3,608 crore, sparing Rs 10 lakh to convert one of its primary school in Kondhwa into a high school by adding three divisions — VIII, IX and X — should not be a mammoth task. Surprisingly, the PMC has decided to seek help from NGOs to raise funds.


PMC's education dept is going to NGOs to ask for the cash. Pic/Mohan Patil 

Civic officials claimed that since the corporation would not be receiving any aid from the state government, it would have to bare the cost of Rs 10 lakh 'permanently'. There are four Marathi medium primary schools run by the PMC from a single building in Kondhwa. These schools have a total strength of 216 students in Std VII. Parents of these students had demanded that the divisions be extended up to Std X.