Article: BRIEF: Rs 68 lakh for flutes, drums at schools with no teachers.

Byline: Sayli Udas Mankikar

Jan. 20--MUMBAI -- The civic corporation wants to buy musical instruments for its 1,200 schools in Mumbai at a cost of Rs 68.5 lakh because it believes that teaching students to play musical instruments is important for their "overall personality and social development". It doesn't seem to matter that about 1,000 of these Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation schools don't have teachers who can teach the children to play the musical instruments. Unmindful, the BMC has decided to buy 2,885 instruments, including saxophones, flutes, drums, shehnais, harmoniums and trumpets.

The civic corporation also seems to also be ...

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