Nalini Dhariwal tries to infuse baseless fear into the Mirambika parent community on behalf of SAES

Here’s her email and our response within it – set within brackets:​

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From: Nalini Dhariwal
Date: Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:07 PM
Subject: {Mirambika All Parents} FactSheet 1
To:

All,

I bring to you a series of facts that we should all be aware of to guide our decisions and actions. Starting from the latest, here’s the first of the series. (The fact is that to make way for an engineering college, Mbk children have been shoved into an under construction building – on Ashram land not approved by DDA for school – which does not have fire safety clearance and which does not provide the ecosystem needed for free progress integral education. Do you accept that for your kids – look into their eyes – look for your conscience and answer? That indeed is the start. God forbid, if something wrong happens, would you or PJ take responsibility?)

Petitioners have now questioned the qualifications of the Diyas. If they are heard by DOE, all classes beyond primary are in danger of getting shut. I have pasted here the clause in the petition: (Mirambika is an autonomous school, Diyas have always been and shall always be its part. Petitioners have only responded to the deficiencies in the DOE inspection report favoring SAES. All know that the DOE head’s children were somehow admitted to study in SAES controlled SAES. When you say  ‘If they are heard by DOE’, you admit that DOE has done nothing but you are raising a hue & cry to please your masters albeit without any basis. Your basis is fear and you want to instill fear to help PJ succeed in his divide & rule policy. In fact, PJ perhaps knows that is safe from aggressive legal action only till he hides behind them. If they leave, he will face criminal legal action and the petitioners will use all legal means to scorch the land he so dearly wants for the engineering college.)

Sulochna Didi, Srila Didi, Kamala Didi and other volunteering diyas are over-age and don’t qualify for the ‘required legal parameters for qualifications of teachers’. (This is your statement against the Diyas. Are you not aware that Mirambika is an autonomous school and so it need not strictly observe the ‘required legal parameters for qualifications of teachers’ ?)

We have always been short on B.Ed qualified teachers but the legal qualifications of our Diyas has never bothered progressive Mirambika. (‘We’ – are you the SAES or the School Management Committee? Since Mirambika is an autonomous school, Diyas have always been and shall always be its part. In fact, SAES counsel tried to deny Mirambika’s autonomous status in the court. Is that a part of the SAES strategy to disqualify Mirambika from DOE recognition and then shut it down? Please ask PJ and report back.)

This clause in the petition is a real danger. The notice to school has been served by DOE. (Where is the DOE notice? In what capacity have you seen it? Are you advising SAES or paying for the lawyers engaged by it? How come the same DOE that almost okayed the residential Ashram premises for Mirambika – transgressing into DDA’s powers – bases on an anticipated move into a new building – couldn’t be managed by PJ this time? Because such a notice suits his purpose. The petitioner won’t let your master succeed.)

Regards

Nalini