By IANS
RANCHI: A category IX pupil of Jamshedpur’s Saradamoni Girls’ School, Ritu Mukhi, set herself on hearth by sprinkling kerosene on her physique after returning residence from college on October 14. She handed away on October 21, after struggling for seven days in Tata Main Hospital with 90 per cent burns.
The 14-year-old is survived by her mom, Saraswati Mukhi and her siblings. She was calm and introverted by nature and wished to grow to be a authorities officer to help her household. Her household’s hopes and goals additionally got here to an finish together with her loss of life.
On October 14, when her mom and brother have been out for some work, she despatched her sisters to a neighbour’s home earlier than setting herself on hearth. When the flames intensified, she ran in the direction of the road and fell unconscious. Hearing the commotion, folks close by ran to her support and doused the fireplace.
The motive behind this drastic step is extraordinarily surprising. In the assertion given to the police, she stated that she was showing for her terminal examination when the invigilator, Chandra Das, accused her of dishonest. Das slapped her and compelled her to take away her garments in entrance of everybody to test for hidden notes even after she protested.
The sufferer added in her assertion that she was so embarrassed by the incident that she took the acute step after returning residence from college that day.
Das is lodged in jail and has denied the allegations, though a number of different college students who have been current within the class affirm the sufferer’s allegations. School principal Geeta Mahato has been suspended. Taking cognizance of the incident, Chief Minister Hemant Soren directed the administration to take crucial motion.
When Jamshedpur Deputy Commissioner Vijaya Jadhav reached to console the sufferer’s mom, the latter saved saying that she could not save her child woman. She additionally requested Jadhav to get justice for her daughter.
This incident raises many questions on the system. Dr S.C. Sharma, a retired lecturer and academician of Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, says that, “This incident may at first glance seem to be only the teacher’s fault, but in reality it is a question on the entire educational system and our social fabric as well.”
He added that, “the student took the decision while suffering herself and did not let anyone get a hint about the ‘war’ in her mind. Such reports are coming frequently from academic campuses. We move on after every incident with only regret and blame. Incidents of corporal punishment are a question on the whole system. Merely making laws to stop them will not work. There is a need for constant counselling of teachers-students-parents.”
In Jharkhand alone, there have been many incidents of harassment of scholars in colleges in current occasions. On September 27, Vikas alias Cyril Kujur, a instructor of St. Michael English Medium School of Gumla district, brutally thrashed 13 college students after they refused to bounce. Many college students have been injured and had swollen palms and ft.
Angered by this incident, folks staged a sit-in in entrance of the college and protested. Eventually the accused instructor was despatched to jail by registering an FIR.
An identical incident occurred in Bokaro on September 22. In SS High School of Kasmar block, college instructor Vineet Kumar Jha thrashed a pupil, Rajkumar Mahato, badly. The pupil suffered a severe damage on his hand. In protest, college students and fogeys blocked the principle highway outdoors the college and demanded motion towards the accused instructor. Later, the police pacified them by assuring of strict motion.
On September 9, at a non-public college in Deoghar, a minor pupil of Class IX was allegedly thrashed and made to face within the solar for 3 hours by a non-teaching workers, inflicting him to faint. He was rushed to his home, from the place his members of the family admitted him to a hospital.
Two academics of Modern English School in Itki block of Ranchi district brutally thrashed a sibling duo, leading to damage marks on their our bodies. Their father lodged an FIR at Itki police station on October 14.
Renu Tiwari, who was answerable for the first part of a reputed college in Ranchi for nearly three many years, says that, “along with the teachers, students and parents should be constantly counselled. Corporal punishment for children in school or any kind of discrimination against them comes under the category of crime.”
It is the accountability of the college administration to create an surroundings the place youngsters can really feel protected. There may be some ways to regulate the indiscipline of the scholars. For instance, complaints ought to be made to the dad and mom and an enterprise ought to be given in severe issues. Corporal punishment is certainly not an answer to the issue, Tiwari added.
RANCHI: A category IX pupil of Jamshedpur’s Saradamoni Girls’ School, Ritu Mukhi, set herself on hearth by sprinkling kerosene on her physique after returning residence from college on October 14. She handed away on October 21, after struggling for seven days in Tata Main Hospital with 90 per cent burns.
The 14-year-old is survived by her mom, Saraswati Mukhi and her siblings. She was calm and introverted by nature and wished to grow to be a authorities officer to help her household. Her household’s hopes and goals additionally got here to an finish together with her loss of life.
On October 14, when her mom and brother have been out for some work, she despatched her sisters to a neighbour’s home earlier than setting herself on hearth. When the flames intensified, she ran in the direction of the road and fell unconscious. Hearing the commotion, folks close by ran to her support and doused the fireplace.
The motive behind this drastic step is extraordinarily surprising. In the assertion given to the police, she stated that she was showing for her terminal examination when the invigilator, Chandra Das, accused her of dishonest. Das slapped her and compelled her to take away her garments in entrance of everybody to test for hidden notes even after she protested.
The sufferer added in her assertion that she was so embarrassed by the incident that she took the acute step after returning residence from college that day.
Das is lodged in jail and has denied the allegations, though a number of different college students who have been current within the class affirm the sufferer’s allegations. School principal Geeta Mahato has been suspended. Taking cognizance of the incident, Chief Minister Hemant Soren directed the administration to take crucial motion.
When Jamshedpur Deputy Commissioner Vijaya Jadhav reached to console the sufferer’s mom, the latter saved saying that she could not save her child woman. She additionally requested Jadhav to get justice for her daughter.
This incident raises many questions on the system. Dr S.C. Sharma, a retired lecturer and academician of Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh, says that, “This incident may at first glance seem to be only the teacher’s fault, but in reality it is a question on the entire educational system and our social fabric as well.”
He added that, “the student took the decision while suffering herself and did not let anyone get a hint about the ‘war’ in her mind. Such reports are coming frequently from academic campuses. We move on after every incident with only regret and blame. Incidents of corporal punishment are a question on the whole system. Merely making laws to stop them will not work. There is a need for constant counselling of teachers-students-parents.”
In Jharkhand alone, there have been many incidents of harassment of scholars in colleges in current occasions. On September 27, Vikas alias Cyril Kujur, a instructor of St. Michael English Medium School of Gumla district, brutally thrashed 13 college students after they refused to bounce. Many college students have been injured and had swollen palms and ft.
Angered by this incident, folks staged a sit-in in entrance of the college and protested. Eventually the accused instructor was despatched to jail by registering an FIR.
An identical incident occurred in Bokaro on September 22. In SS High School of Kasmar block, college instructor Vineet Kumar Jha thrashed a pupil, Rajkumar Mahato, badly. The pupil suffered a severe damage on his hand. In protest, college students and fogeys blocked the principle highway outdoors the college and demanded motion towards the accused instructor. Later, the police pacified them by assuring of strict motion.
On September 9, at a non-public college in Deoghar, a minor pupil of Class IX was allegedly thrashed and made to face within the solar for 3 hours by a non-teaching workers, inflicting him to faint. He was rushed to his home, from the place his members of the family admitted him to a hospital.
Two academics of Modern English School in Itki block of Ranchi district brutally thrashed a sibling duo, leading to damage marks on their our bodies. Their father lodged an FIR at Itki police station on October 14.
Renu Tiwari, who was answerable for the first part of a reputed college in Ranchi for nearly three many years, says that, “along with the teachers, students and parents should be constantly counselled. Corporal punishment for children in school or any kind of discrimination against them comes under the category of crime.”
It is the accountability of the college administration to create an surroundings the place youngsters can really feel protected. There may be some ways to regulate the indiscipline of the scholars. For instance, complaints ought to be made to the dad and mom and an enterprise ought to be given in severe issues. Corporal punishment is certainly not an answer to the issue, Tiwari added.