Tag: Student

Students suffer the brutality of teachers

 
/ May 15, 2015

Kohigia Village Council, Jajpur District, Odisha | Biswanath Patra Even though the Right to Education act prohibits the use of physical torture in government schools, it remains a disturbingly widespread practice across the country to beat students to discipline them. This report documents one such incident, where a teacher severely...

One Billion Rising: Broom before books – Girls made to clean the school premisis

 
/ February 6, 2015

February 6; Bastar, Chattisgarh Our Community Correspondent, Ramjag Gaud, reports from Bhond village on the situation of the Government primary and secondary school. In this school, the girl students are made to clean the classrooms and school premises. The Headmaster of the school says that it is a measure he...