The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) , which has put state government schools at the centre of its ongoing campaign, wrote to all state governments on Monday (August 24, 2026), seeking data on school infrastructure, teacher vacancies, and funding over the last five years.
The letters are the latest step in CJP’s campaign regarding the condition of government schools. The youth-led outfit has been highlighting dilapidated school buildings and inadequate facilities on social media while demanding greater public spending on education. The campaign has also seen confrontations on the ground. A CJP team, including co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka, was allegedly assaulted during a recent visit to a government school in Rajasthan. It has also asked state governments to disclose the number of sanctioned, filled and vacant teaching posts and provide figures on funds allocated to government schools over the past five years against the amount actually spent. The party also sought estimates of how many additional government schools are needed to ensure reasonable access to quality education and details of non-teaching duties assigned to government school teachers.
“Every child, irrespective of where they are born or how much their parents earn, deserves a safe classroom, clean drinking water, a functional washroom, a bench to sit on, and a teacher to teach them,” he added.
