It's a bad time to be a student at a BMC-run school in Bombay. This shouldn't come as a surprise to most people of this city, of course, because we have all grown up accepting the fact that almost nothing on Earth managed by the BMC has ever been referred to as good. It must be particularly awful this time around though because, according to the non-governmental organisation Praja, more than 30,000 students have dropped out of schools run by that most august of institutions in the past five years.

This newspaper recently published a report about the Erangal Marathi Municipal School at Malad that was set up in 1955, but had yet to get fans or lights in its classrooms. File pic for representation