Karnataka Govt Bans Physical Punishment to Students
Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (MM/NR)
Bangalore, Sept 2: Here’s good news for school children. According to a recent order of the state education department, the teachers can no longer be able to beat their students physically. Even the teachers are not supposed to insult the students in classroom. If the teachers do so, they will have to face its legal consequences.
It must be noted here, that the education department has already sent a special notification in this regard to the Deputy Director Public Instructions (DDPI) of all the districts. Thus this resulted in the education department taking the said revolutionary step, as a prelude to safeguarding child rights.
Of late several incidents of the relation between students vis- a-vis teachers, particularly in connection to violation of child rights have been reported in the state.
To give one instance a certain student Sangeeta was assaulted by a teacher in Bangalore. Immediately, the National Child Rights Protection Commission swung into action, and then issued certain guidelines to the education department to safeguard the interests of the children.
Speaking to media persons, G Kumar Nayak, commissioner of the Education Department, stated that a child’s mind is very sensitive. Hence, one should not use force against a child to control him/her. To add more credence to the matter, he stated that less attendance of children in classrooms have been reported in many schools, where the environment is not conducive to them.
Teachers can’t deliver quality education by creating an environment of fear or by assaulting them. Any punishment given to the children is nothing but, violation of a child right,” he opined grimly.
Even though teachers continue to harass students, they will have to face severe actions as per the IPC Act, warned Kumar Nayak.
The students can complain directly or by using the complaint boxes in the schools. The education department has also instructed to the DDPIs to train the teachers, school heads, representatives of the administrative board at the state, district, taluk and at the cluster level, on this matter.
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