The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) will launch its ‘Adivasi School Thik Karo’ campaign in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district on September 17, with the initiative aimed at highlighting problems faced by tribal schools and students. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke announced the campaign on Wednesday, saying representatives of the organisation would visit schools in tribal areas to examine their facilities, infrastructure and other conditions. The exercise is intended to draw attention to what the organisation describes as prolonged neglect of schools serving tribal communities.

Addressing a press conference, Dipke said the campaign would focus on issues affecting tribal students, including alleged discrimination and inadequate facilities. He said schools in tribal regions had been neglected by successive governments over several decades. “Schools in tribal regions across India have been neglected by all governments in the last 80 years. Therefore, we are starting the ‘Adivasi School Thik Karo’ campaign from Thursday in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra,” Dipke said. The campaign is expected to begin with visits to tribal schools across the district.

As part of the exercise, CJP representatives will inspect school buildings and other available infrastructure and document the conditions faced by students. The organisation said the visits would help identify gaps in facilities and bring them to the attention of the authorities. Dipke also referred to concerns surrounding tribal students in Gadchiroli, including the deaths of three tribal girls at a hostel following snakebite, an issue that had prompted the National Human Rights Commission to seek a report from the Maharashtra government. The campaign is being presented by the CJP as an effort to highlight broader concerns affecting students in tribal belts.

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The announcement comes about a month after the CJP launched its ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign, described as a nationwide initiative aimed at improving conditions in public schools in both rural and urban areas. The organisation has used the campaign to focus on school infrastructure and facilities and to call for greater attention to government-run educational institutions. The Gadchiroli initiative will extend that campaign specifically to tribal schools, where the CJP says students face additional challenges because of inadequate infrastructure and other forms of neglect.

Dipke criticised governments and political parties over what he described as insufficient spending on tribal education. He claimed that political parties spend crores of rupees on constructing party offices in districts while tribal residential schools continue to operate from rented premises. “Almost all governments have ignored tribal students,” he said, arguing that greater financial and administrative priority should be given to schools in tribal regions. His comments reflect the CJP’s broader demand that public spending and government attention be directed towards improving basic facilities available to students rather than being focused primarily on other institutional priorities.

Dipke also said tribal students have significant potential and called for greater attention to their education and development. He argued that economic growth figures alone do not address the needs of communities that continue to face gaps in basic public services. Referring to the government’s economic ambitions, he said that claiming a 7.8% GDP growth rate or discussing the goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy would not be sufficient without addressing educational needs in tribal areas. The CJP said its representatives would begin school inspections in Gadchiroli from September 17 as part of the new campaign.

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