The COVID pandemic has pushed over 10,000 students out of schools in the city, a BMC survey has found. The civic body’s education department ran the exercise under a state initiative to track such students and bring them back to schooling.

BMC officials have found that 9,995 students have gone out of the school system in Mumbai mostly due to migration after the coronavirus outbreak. The 10-day survey also showed that there are 182 new children currently in the city but away from schools. The 10,177 ‘missing’ students comprise 5,275 boys and 4,902 girls.