Six months after Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) Deputy Municipal Commissioner promised to begin the platform school at Mumbra station, the project is still to see the light of day. The MNS Students Association on Wednesday held a protest march near the Mumbra railway station against this delay.

Earlier scheduled to start operations in December 2017, the school, to be conducted in a large container, lies unattended. In June this year, a painted container was placed outside the station but it is now surrounded by garbage piles. This concept of platform school was initiated after the success of signal school at Teen Haath Naka in Thane for street children to study.