India, May 30 -- BJP corporator Rakhi Jadhav on Friday staged a protest in Ghatkopar against the allotment of a BMC school plot to a private educational trust allegedly headed by Shiv Sena (UBT)-backed teachers' constituency MLC J M Abhyankar, claiming the civic body's 2024 policy was tweaked to benefit select private institutions.

The protest was held at Pantnagar Municipal Marathi School No. 2, where parents, residents and local activists opposed the leasing of municipal school plots to private educational trusts. BJP corporators demanded that the policy allowing such allotments be scrapped.

The corporators alleged that the policy was approved at a time when key statutory committees, including the education, standing and improvements ...