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Ref: ua/5/2004 Date : 10-08-2004
To
Thiru. Naresh, M.Sc. M.Ed.
Chief Educational Officer
Raja Street
Coimbatore - 641 001
Dear Sir,
Sub: Abolishing Corporal Punishment in Schools - Immediate action requested.
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We are extremely pained to bring to your immediate notice the way in which
 school going children are put to emotional harassment and physical torture. As
there is a mad 'rat race called learning process' schools [both Aided and
Government] resort to use mean methods to 'groom' their students. Sporadic
episodes of suicides of adolescent learners do add spice to sensational
newspapers. But like an ice berg, the enormity of inhuman treatment inflicted
upon young helpless kids remains hidden. Transfer Certificate is the cheapest
trump card used to keep the victims stay mute.
It has been brought to our notice through oral messages, through phone calls and
letters that in spite of the "BAN" against Corporal Punishments it is being
generously unleashed upon students by 'strict' educators.
This crime is continuously committed by Heads of Institutions and Physical
Education teachers and Physical Directors. Even a Secretary of an aided
Institution in Coimbatore performs such heartless beastly acts under the pretext
of 'disciplining the students'. Prayer assemblies are the arena for public
display of physical punishment of the students in schools.
'Poor performers', 'disobedient students', 'late comers', 'fee - defaulters',
are those who get special treatments. Concentration camps of Hitler's Germany
would not have been this cruel.
We appeal to the authorities to look into this matter very urgently, because
India's destiny is decided in her class rooms. It is time that we collectively
learnt to look at our children as young individuals who have the birth-right of
living their childhood days sans, fear and anxiety. Humanity is betrayed through
corporal punishments inflicted upon the youth. Beast liners leave an indelible
mark of anguish in the minds of the victims.
Thanks
Yours Sincerely,
Sd.
Subramanian.G
Executive Director,
MANITHAM - Promoting Human Rights & Protecting Environment.
Copy to:
1. The Secretary,
Department of Education,
Fort St. George, Chennai.
2. Director of School Education,
Office of the Director of School Education,
College Road, Chennai
3. Joint Director of Secondary School Education,
Office of the Director of School Education,
College Road, Chennai
4. Joint Director (Elementary Education)
Directorate of Elementary Education
Chennai 600 006
5. Honourable Chief Minister,
Chief Minister Special Cell,
Fort St. George, Chennai.
6. Honourable Education Minister,
Chief Minister Special Cell,
Fort St. George, Chennai.
7. The District Collector,
Coimbatore Collectorate
Huzur Road, Coimbatore |
