Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Monday (August 10, 2026) introduced a nationwide marketing campaign to enhance authorities colleges in villages, calling on dad and mom to conduct social audits of fundamental services and sarpanches to take up the duty of enhancing the establishments.
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The marketing campaign can be launched on August 15, with the CJP calling upon residents, dad and mom and village leaders to work collectively to handle what it termed “neglect of rural academic infrastructure”.
In a video message, Mr. Dipke stated he would launch the initiative from his village Hingoli in Maharashtra by approaching the village head with the request of enhancing the federal government colleges there.
“The approaching fifteenth August is our eightieth Independence Day. However, if something has been uncared for or ignored essentially the most within the final 80 years, it’s the authorities colleges in our villages,” Mr. Dipke stated.
“Now we have made a brand new Parliament, a brand new PM home. Why have we not been in a position to construct new colleges in our villages? Can we not contemplate the kids of farmers and labourers the way forward for our nation?” he requested.
Mr. Dipke stated that village youngsters nonetheless should stroll lengthy distances to attend faculty and sometimes discover fundamental services equivalent to consuming water and bathrooms unavailable.
“Even in the present day, village youngsters should stroll an extended distance to go to highschool. After going there, they don’t discover water or rest room services,” he stated, highlighting the difficulties confronted by ladies specifically.
“I really feel that on this fifteenth August, if we should always take note of something, if we should always make a brand new begin, we should always begin by enhancing our authorities colleges,” he stated.
As a part of the marketing campaign, the CJP has issued an enchantment to sarpanches throughout the nation to enhance authorities colleges of their respective villages.
Dipke stated he would personally strategy the village head in Hingoli, and urged different village heads to take up the initiative.
The organisation has described it as a “Sarpanch Problem”, beneath which the CJP would publicly recognise village heads who enhance their colleges by sharing before-and-after pictures on its social media platforms, giving credit score to the sarpanches involved.
“We provides you with credit score in order that after seeing you, after seeing the faculties that you’ve improved, many different village heads additionally begin enhancing colleges of their villages,” Dipke stated.
The CJP assertion additionally introduced a citizen-led social audit of presidency colleges.
Dad and mom whose youngsters research in authorities colleges have been requested to go to the establishments and test the provision of electrical energy, clear consuming water, purposeful washrooms and mid-day meals.
“You go to your youngsters’s colleges and see if fundamental services can be found. See if there may be electrical energy, water… Do your youngsters get washroom services? Do they get mid-day meals?” Dipke stated, urging the dad and mom to document movies if the services usually are not out there.
The CJP additionally stated that it’s going to quickly difficulty a printable audit type by way of which residents can document the services out there and people lacking of their youngsters’s colleges.
The shape can be shared by way of a hyperlink on the marketing campaign movies on the CJP’s official social media platforms. Accomplished kinds and video proof will be emailed to contact@cockroachjantaparty.org.
It stated the marketing campaign seeks to make sure that youngsters of farmers and wage labourers finding out in village colleges have entry to services akin to these out there to youngsters in cities.
“If not, you make movies of it. As a result of your youngsters’s education ought to be good. That’s your basic proper,” Dipke stated.
“Allow us to all make a promise to the kids who reside in villages that we’ll enhance their colleges. Collectively, we are able to do that,” he stated, concluding the video with the message “Actual India lives in villages”.
The CJP, which started as a web based satirical platform, gained recognition earlier than taking its marketing campaign to the streets.
Its 36-day agitation on the Jantar Mantar in Delhi towards examination irregularities was referred to as off on July 25 after the resignation of then Union Training Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Amid hypothesis over its future plan of action, the CJP held a two-day technique assembly at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra earlier this month and determined to proceed as a youth motion as an alternative of coming into electoral politics.
It additionally introduced a “Kya Bolti Public?” marketing campaign for nationwide outreach.
Dipke had earlier urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make use of his Independence Day tackle to talk to the nation’s youth.
Printed – August 11, 2026 09:31 am IST
