There are about 12.1 crore students enrolled in government schools in India as of the fiscal year 2024–25. In Mumbai alone, the Praja Foundation, in collaboration with the BMC, estimated that roughly 44 per cent of total student enrollment comes from municipal schooling systems as of 2026.

“And yet, you and I may have never been to a government school, but we know the conditions there aren’t good,” says one of our sources. This dissonance is exactly what the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) captures with its new “School Thik Karo” campaign. On August 15, founder Abhijeet Dipke launched the movement where volunteers can download “audit forms” from CJP’s website, which list checkboxes from clean washrooms to Mid-day meals. They can then submit these forms to local authorities and demand improvement.