India, Sept. 11 -- New Delhi

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reprimanded the Delhi government for its failure to provide basic infrastructure in several government schools, including Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya at Kamla Market and Government Boys and Girls Secondary Schools in Ashok Nagar, where students are being forced to study in tin-shed classrooms that lack proper desks, walls, and essential facilities.

A bench led by chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela expressed shock over the dire condition of the schools, while hearing a plea filed by NGO Social Jurist, which sought directions to the Delhi government to demolish the tin-shed structures and immediately construct state-of-the-art school buildings. The NGO, in i...