MUMBAI, May 17 -- City BJP president and MLA Ameet Satam has raised strong objections to the BMC's public-private partnership (PPP) policy for municipal school plots and demanded that the allotment of five school plots under the policy be cancelled immediately. In a letter to mayor Ritu Tawde and BMC commissioner Ashwini Bhide, Satam said that the civic body needed to review the scheme properly before moving ahead with it. He demanded that the BMC appoint a committee to review it in detail, hold discussions in the civic house and then create a balanced and inclusive policy after taking suggestions from elected representatives and education experts. The BMC has currently identified six school plots reserved for municipal schools to be handed over to private operators under the PPP model. These are Kanya Shala in Malad, the Mahim BMC School, the Malad Dhanjiwadi School, the MHB Urdu School in Malad, the Vakola BMC School and the Thakur Village BMC School. Five of these have already received responses from private organisations. Satam, in his letter, said that the policy was drawn up at an inappropriate time, in a hurry and without the requisite transparency. "It was framed during a period when the BMC general body was not in existence. There was no detailed discussion on its terms and conditions, the role of the civic body or the benefits for the BMC. Prima facie, it appears that the BMC's interests have suffered under this policy," Satam said in his letter. The MLA added that public land in Mumbai should not be handed over without proper discussion and review. The proposed project had already run up against opposition in the civic education committee on April 24. During a committee meeting, members objected to the PPP model and asked the administration to keep the policy on hold until more details were shared with elected representatives....