A twelve-year-old Std VII student from Colaba, whose education was disrupted after the BMC school he attended shut down, has finally secured admission in a local convent school, thanks to the intervention of an advocate, Sunil Pandey.

The boy, who had scored 74 per cent in his Std VI exams, was studying at a BMC-run school in Colaba until it was declared structurally unsafe and categorised as C-1 (dangerous) by the civic body. The BMC subsequently shifted around 1400 students to another municipal school near CSMT.