‘Use PM Cares Fund for schools’: CJP's Abhijeet Dipke as report reveals corpus rose to over ₹8,400 crore
Abhijeet Dipke said a well-equipped model school could cost around ₹8 crore, meaning ₹8,500 crore could fund over 1,000 high-tech schools.
Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), has criticized the use of the PM CARES Fund corpus for improving basic facilities in rural government schools. According to a report, the fund's corpus increased to over ₹8,400 crore in 2024-25. Dipke, in a video, expressed concern over the poor condition of schools he visited, stating that children lacked basic facilities like drinking water.
He questioned why the fund, which had nearly ₹8,500 crore, was not being utilized for these purposes. The rise in the corpus was mainly due to interest income on fixed deposits and refunds from implementing agencies, despite a decline in domestic donations. Dipke estimated that a well-equipped model school could cost around ₹8 crore, which the fund could theoretically support over 1,000 such schools.
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