Budget document shows BMC has 7,453 teachers for 2,76,115 students in 931 primary schools
The document uploaded on the official BMC website shows the BMC has 7,453 teachers catering to 2,76,115 students (1,41,013 boys and 1,35,102 girls) of 931 primary schools of 8 mediums viz: Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil.
Among them, 77 teachers are engaged with 845 specially abled students (578 boys and 267 girls) in 19 BMC special schools. BMC has 377 private aided schools receiving grants where 2,367 teachers are working. These schools are imparting education to 96,513 students (47,721 boys and 48,792 girls) of Std. 1st to Std. 4th.
At present, 900 classes of kindergarten, 168 pre-primary classes of MPS and 115 pre-primary classes of CBSE, ICSE, and IB & IGCSE Boards are being conducted by BMC. A total of 40,595 students are enrolled in these classes.
A total of 21 BMC schools affiliated with other boards, including 18 schools of the CBSE board and 1 school each of the ICSE, IGCSE and IB Board are operational. A total of 13,316 students from nursery to Std. 10th are pursuing their education in these schools.
-Snehal Mutha
