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Sudhanshu Mishra Jaipur, October 24, 2011 | UPDATED 10:12 IST
Rajasthan school girl caned for refusing to give massages
The girls were forced to give massages.
They were not learning to be masseuses, but their teachers coerced
them to give massages - punishing them in the most brutal manner if
they refused.
This apparently took place at a state-run residential school for Dalit
girls in Rajasthan's Barmer district. Following complaints from the
hapless students, the district administration recently removed all the
teachers and the warden.
In fact it has been learnt that the girls in the upper primary
Kasturba Gandhi Residential School in Bayatu town - a special project
of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - were subjected to such torture and
humiliation for quite some time.
Some time ago, it is said, when two girls raised their voice against
the ill-treatment they were expelled from the school.
But as the agony became unbearable for the students, over a dozen
students gathered courage and reported it to the district authorities
last week. One of them said in her complaint to the district
administration that when she refused the warden's demand for a
massage, she was stripped in the bathroom and caned.
Inquiries revealed that the students were not given proper food and
teachers had forced the girls to do their domestic work, Barmer
collector Bina Pradhan said.
But the collector said it couldn't be proven if warden Kavita
Chaudhary, sister of the headmistress Damyanti Chaudhary, had asked
for a massage and assaulted the girl when she refused. Kavita and all
the four teachers of the school were contract employees.
The collector said the contract teachers and the warden were removed,
while the headmistress, who was on deputation, was sent back to her
parent department. New staff will be appointed as soon as the school
reopens after the Diwali vacation.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rajasthan-teachers-turn-dalit-schoolgirls-into-masseuses/1/157303.html
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