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BMC proposes to rent out classrooms to private schools - The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proposed to rent out classrooms in the closed down civic-run school buildings to private institutions for educational activities. The proposal for this new policy has been criticised across party lines. According to the civic administration, it intends to provide conditional use of classrooms in municipal school buildings during the repair/renovation of dilapidated private school buildings and a new policy has been formulated in this regard. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporators have openly opposed the proposal. Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders too have questioned the civic body s intentions behind formulating such a policy. They have sought a reply from the civic Education Department on efforts being put by the civic body to increase the enrollment of its own students and have demanded a reply as to why civic schools have been closing down. ....