BMC Conducts Massive Crackdown on Unauthorised Schools

The students have been shifted to authorised BMC, government and private schools. The unauthorised institutions had received closure notices during the 2025-26 academic year and had around 5,000 students enrolled.More than 1,200 students who were enrolled in 164 unauthorised schools across the city have now been shifted to authorised government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) schools, as well as private schoolsThese 164 schools were served with closure notices in the 2025-26 academic year and had around 5,000 students enrolled, the Hindustan Times reported. The report further states that around 690 students were shifted to BMC-run schools, while the remaining 550 students were given admission to private schools with assistance from the civic body, officials from the BMC education department said.Officials were quoted as saying that the parents of the students had not been active in efforts to shift their children from unauthorised schools to authorised schools. They also stated that BMC officials had opened an admission centre in the M-East ward at the new municipal school building in Shivaji Nagar, Govandi. However, the response from parents had been unsatisfactory