Overview
- The Cockroach Janta Party carried its 'School Theek Karo' drive to Noida and inspected a government primary school in Garhi Chaukhandi, where it documented poorly kept toilets and other maintenance shortfalls.
- CJP spokesperson Saurav Das posted on X that all government schools in Gautam Buddh Nagar had been ordered closed after the inspection, a claim he later clarified to mean his team was denied entry to other schools.
- District education officials led by DBEO Rahul Panwar issued an office order rejecting the closure claim as false and said all council schools in the district were operating on the regular timetable.
- CJP says principals told its teams they had received instructions from higher officials not to allow inspections and that four of five planned visits were blocked, while the group plans to circulate a standardised audit form for residents to upload videos and reports.
- CJP grew from a political-satire student movement into an education pressure group that highlights issues such as lack of clean toilets, drinking water, benches and teachers’ non-teaching duties, and its Noida visit could increase public scrutiny of how maintenance funds and staff tasks are managed.