Once the pride of local education, municipal schools in Nagpur are now on the verge of extinction. In a shocking decline, 51 schools have been shut down in just the past five years — a glaring warning that the future of education for thousands of underprivileged children is being abandoned.
Back in 2009, Nagpur had 186 functioning municipal schools. Today, only 114 remain. That’s 72 schools lost in just 15 years. The statistics are grim — and the trend is only worsening.
Currently, the city has 86 primary and 28 secondary schools catering to 14,637 students. But even that number is shrinking fast, as classrooms fall silent and buildings crumble. Vacant school structures are being misused — with some turned into municipal offices, some stacked with encroachment department junk, and others left deserted, attracting miscreants.
What’s driving this collapse? A major factor is the drying pool of teachers. In 2014, there were 1,402 teachers in municipal schools. That number has plummeted to just 646 in 2024 — and with 15–20 educators retiring every month, insiders fear the education department could completely shut down by 2027.
While urban development gets all the attention and funding, the core responsibility of providing free, quality education is being quietly buried. If the trend continues, the city’s poorest children will be left with nowhere to go and no future to build.
This is not just a crisis — it’s an educational emergency. And it demands immediate action.
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