BJP, in charge of MCDs, blames AAP for not releasing funds. AAP blames BJP government at the Centre for non-allocation of funds for MCDs. AAP has been asking the central government to raise its share in the budget which remains Rs 325 crore since 2001. However, stuck in the middle are some 8,000 teachers of NDMC who haven’t got last three months salaries and arrears as promised under the 7th pay commission.

Reports of ghost teachers, high dropout rates and 40,000 students without benches, are other issues that plague the NDMC.

Kuldeep Khatri, chairperson of Shikshya Nyay Manch, ahead of the Delhi Election asks, “Aren’t we citizens of Delhi? Aren’t our children residents of Delhi?”

In the end, he said, if BJP cannot bear expenses of MCD, they should hand it over to the Delhi government.