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Nehru Museum mulls fee hike, new courses after fire-safety crisis

Nehru Museum mulls fee hike, new courses after fire-safety crisis
Nehru Museum mulls fee hike, new courses after fire-safety crisis - Telegraph India · telegraphindia.com

The Nehru Children's Museum is a place where children take classes like painting, recitation, and dance.

Not long ago, the fire department said the museum needed to become safer.

The museum did not have enough money for the safety upgrades, which cost 50 lakh rupees.

So it closed down and moved classes online to keep around 900 children safe.

The people running the museum met with a government adviser and were promised help.

Now they want children to come back to the ground floor to finish the current semester.

Because some parents may not agree, online classes will continue at the same time.

To earn more money, the museum wants to charge higher fees for its classes.

It also wants to add new courses like robotics and digital painting.

The teachers were told about these plans, and the museum wants to keep them involved.

Key facts

Institution
Nehru Children's Museum
Current course fees
₹3,500–₹4,500 for 21 classes
Fire-safety upgrade cost
₹50 lakh, which the museum could not afford
Children affected
Around 900, with classes shifted online
Staff at meeting
25 members, including painting, recitation and dance faculty
Planned new courses
Robotics and digital painting
Government assistance
Help assured after meeting special adviser to the chief minister, Subrata Gupta
Reason for shutdown
Advice from the fire department to upgrade safety measures

Quotes

Indrani Sengupta

Secretary of Nehru Children’s Museum

“On Wednesday, we told our faculty members that they could ask the children to come back and use the ground floor for conducting the classes and finish the current semester. But all parents might not agree to send their children for in‑person classes, and so there have to be simultaneous online classes as well.”
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“We have to raise the fees of the courses and introduce new ones like robotics and digital painting that would appeal to the current generation of children.”
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