The party made the claims on Wednesday through its official account on X as part of its continuing “School Thik Karo” campaign, which has sought citizen-led inspections of government and municipal schools across Maharashtra and other states. CJP did not publicly identify the Nagpur schools in the post or provide independent evidence establishing who consumed the substances or when the alleged incidents occurred.
“Liquor is allowed inside school, but inspecting it raises Security Concerns?” the party said, contrasting its allegations about intoxicants with objections raised elsewhere to unauthorised visits by campaign volunteers. It further claimed that people had been seen consuming drugs and other intoxicants on school premises.
CJP also alleged that washrooms at the schools were dirty and barely usable, drinking water was unavailable, food was unsafe and classroom shortages forced pupils from different standards to share rooms. It said some seventh-standard students had still not received their fifth-standard mark sheets, an assertion that could not immediately be independently verified.
No immediate public response to the Nagpur-specific allegations was located from the Nagpur Municipal Corporation, Zilla Parishad Nagpur or Maharashtra’s school education authorities. The claims therefore remain allegations by the political outfit unless confirmed through an official inspection, school records or other independent evidence.
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education framework requires recognised schools to provide infrastructure, including separate toilets for boys and girls, safe drinking water and sufficient classrooms. Compliance depends not only on facilities being recorded on paper but on whether they remain accessible and usable.
The dispute comes as CJP expands its school-audit campaign, launched in August by founder Abhijeet Dipke to focus attention on sanitation, drinking water, classroom infrastructure, staffing, safety and other facilities in publicly funded schools. Dipke has argued that parents and citizens should be able to document conditions and press authorities for corrective action.
The campaign has already encountered resistance over access to campuses. Mumbai’s civic education authorities barred CJP volunteers from entering municipal schools without permission after a headmaster complained about an inspection at a civic school. Officials cited the need for authorisation and school security, while CJP maintained that its visits were intended as social audits of public institutions.
In Latur district, police booked Dipke and five others last month over alleged unauthorised entry into a government school. During that visit, CJP members alleged that empty liquor bottles and suspected marijuana rolls were found on the premises. Those claims, like the Nagpur accusations, were made by the campaigners and require official corroboration.
CJP has also raised concerns in Hingoli district, where Dipke inspected a Zilla Parishad school and complained about inadequate benches, broken windows, poor toilets and other deficiencies. In a later visit in the district, he alleged that expired food items were being used for midday meals and questioned whether such food would be served to ministers’ own children.
Separately, sanitation in Nagpur’s municipal schools has been an acknowledged administrative concern. Earlier this year, Santoshdevi Laddha, chairperson of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s Education Special Committee, directed officials to give top priority to cleanliness after concerns about shortages of sanitation workers and the condition of school toilets. She asked the health and education departments to coordinate inspections and ensure regular cleaning.
Zilla Parishad Nagpur states on its official website that separate toilets for boys and girls have been provided in every government school in the district through the education department. CJP’s latest claims, however, concern whether facilities are functional, clean and supported by adequate water and maintenance rather than their formal existence alone.
