The non-establishment of an educational institution even after a lapse of two decades on a civic amenity (CA) site allotted for that purpose is nothing but violation of the right to education of children, who could have studied there had the institution been set up, said the High Court of Karnataka.
“This site has remained unutilised for a period of more than two decades, that is till date, after it was allotted... As a consequence, the right to education of those who would have studied, should the school or educational institution have been established in this site in terms of stipulation of allotment, has been brutalised, to say the least,” observed the court.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Krishna S. Dixit made these observation while dismissing an appeal filed by Divyajyothi Vidya Kendra (DVK), a registered society, at Yelahanka New Town. The appellant had questioned a judge’s July 2023 order of upholding the Karnataka Housing Board’s 2018 decision of cancelling the CA site allotted to DVK at Sector-B, Yelahanka New Town.
