Two months ago, RTI activist Nana Kute Patil filed a petition through the RTI Act to find out whether 40 CBSE, ICSE and IB schools in South Mumbai have recruited principals who had already retired from other schools.

Patil says he has been informed that most central government and international schools hire retired school principals from either private or state government schools. He said, “I have only received a response to my RTI application from one private school in South Mumbai, which admitted to having hired a formerly retired principal. Since the rest have not replied yet, I have sent out an appeal.”