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Article: Out of tune.
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- Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2009
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Byline: Sayli Udas Mankikar
Jan. 20--MUMBAI -- Talk about money down the drain. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to buy 2,885 musical instruments at a total cost of Rs 68.5 lakh -- but it doesn't have any music teachers at most its 1,200 schools. Worse still, many of these schools are crumbling and short-staffed. Of the 1,200 civic schools in Mumbai, only 240 have music teachers. Yet the BMC is going shopping for 64 saxophones, 128 shehnais, 511 harmoniums, 768 flutes, 384 trumpets, 128 marching drums, 64 tambourines, 64 trainer drums and 64 dhols, among other instruments. The proposal, to come up before the Standing ...