A 10-year-old Mumbai boy who resides in Mumbai's Andheri area wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) appealing to reopen schools. On Wednesday morning, Dr Rama Shyam his mother received a message from SC and informed her that Kabir’s letter has now turned into PIL.
Earlier in when he was in second grade he had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to take necessary actions to save the environment. Now in grade fifth, he wrote a letter to CJI N V Ramana, urging them to reopen schools and SC has acted on it by turning it into PIL. He argued that if businesses can operate, why not schools.
Kabir in his handwritten letter made a request to open schools and quoted Article 14 of the constitution which is Right to Equality. He wrote, “My mother has told me that Article 14 of the Constitution talks about equality. While I see that all salons and restaurants are open, all schools are not, and this is not equality towards children.’’
Kabir, while talking to the media said that he was in Std IV when his mother, who is an ethnographer with a public health organization handed him a book about the Constitution.
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