Students threatened and abused at Dr. Ambedkar English High school, Kuchelim, Mapusa

Date: 21/08/2013                                     

To

The Director

Directorate of Education

Porvorim Bardez-Goa.

Sub.: Follow up to our complaint dated 30/7/2013 regarding Corporal punishment to students.

 Sir,

This is regarding our complaints dated 30/7/2013 regarding corporal punishment meted out to a few students of std. VIth by   Mr. Dattaram Chari under the influence of alcohol in Dr. Ambedkar English High school, Kuchelim, Mapusa Bardez-Goa on 25/07/2013.

As soon as the Manager of the School Mr. N.G. Akhargekar got the information

regarding our complaint filed in the Education Department , he on 19/08/2013 called me ( Mast. Gautam Kamble, student of class IX) in the school office during 5^th period at 11. 40 a.m. and asked me to withdraw the complaint filed in the Education Department on 30/07/2013. 

 I was forcefully kept in the office for two periods i.e. 5^th and 6^th from 11.40 a.m. to 12. 50 p.m.  whereby I missed two periods. I was put under duress to sign the document to withdraw the complaint stating that it was false and that the said teacher had not under the influence of alcohol beat any student of the school but I boldly resisted the pressure.  Also he tried to threaten me by saying he will put me in trouble if I didn’t agree to withdraw the complaint filed in the department.

Before appearing for the Mid-term Exam on 20/8/2013 the manager also asked me whether I have taken decision regarding withdrawal of the complaint or not?  

It is also learnt that the manager Mr. Akhargekar, visited houses of Dadapir Honnalli and Akash Nandurkar, students of Std. VIth on 19/8/2013 and asked the parents and victims to withdraw the complaints which they had filed in the Police Station at Karaswada Mapusa Goa against Mr. Dattaram Chari on 25/7/2013.

On 21/8/2013 during the 2nd period the manager called Dadapir Honnalli in the school office, caught hold of his shirt collar and asked him to sign on a blank paper Dadapir denied to sign and ran from the office to the classroom. 

During the 5^th period (P.E.) students of Std. VIth were playing on the playground, the manager and Mr. Chari went on the playground and called Dadapir. As Dadapir approached them the manager threatened him by telling he would  take Dadapir in the High Court for not withdrawing the complaint. Dadapir said   “I have not made any mistake. Chari sir had beaten me I will not withdraw my complaint.”  Then the manager started abusing Dadapir by giving him filthy words (words does not suit ethics of this blog, hence omitted from publishing here. Words are prevalent in the original complaint to the director of education).

After that he visited Dadapir’s house in Dadpir’s absence and asked his mother to give in writing that Mr. Chari is not the accused and the complaint made by them is false, but his mother denied to do so.   

Instead of taking any action against the accused teacher the manager is trying to pressurize and harass me and the victim students and their parents to withdraw the complaint thereby trying to settle the matter and protect the accused. As revenge to our complaint Mr. Dattaram Chari and the Manager have started harassing me and other some other students by passing sarcastic comments and threatening. 

Is this the ethical behavior of the manager in the interest of education of students? It is amply clear that the Manager runs the school not for the betterment of the students but to underscore his motive.

Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Morcha highly condemns such downcast acts of the manager.

We kindly request you to take necessary action at the earliest against the accused teacher as well as the manager in the interest of the students so that corporal punishments and harassment will stop immediately.

Thanking You.

Yours faithfully,

 Sd/-

Gautam Kamble

President

Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Morcha, 
Mapusa Unit.  

Threat by goons at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar School, Mapusa

According to the received information Eknath Rathod, std VIII student at Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar English High School, Kuchelim, Mapusa is going to be attacked by goondas in school tomorrow. This threat to create fear in him comes after less than a week of him filing complaint on torture against school authorities. The complaint is filed with education department, government of Goa and copy is submitted to Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Morcha. 

The school authorities had earlier attempted to get this 14 year old student out of school. This brilliant school boy Rathod whose favorite subjects are math and science has been source of great irritation to the management of the school due to his deep thirst and commitment to study. Instead of encouraging talent in him school management is engaging in various practices of demoralization.

Should there be goonda attack on Eknath Rathod tomorrow or any other day, on campus or out of campus it will be construed as an attack from the agents of the Bamon Raj, and Home Minister who is also the Education Minister and Chief Minister of Goa Mr. Manohar Parrikar will be held responsible for the post-attack fall out in case if his intelligence agencies and police fails to prevent attack on young Rathod.

Sorry state of education in Goa conveyed to the Goa government

Date: 30/07/2013                                     

To

The Director

Directorate of Education

Porvorim Bardez-Goa.

Sub.: Regarding Corporal punishment meted out to students

         by a drunkard teacher.

         

Sir,

This is regarding the corporal punishment meted out to a few students of std. VIth by a male teacher under the influence of alcohol in Dr. Ambedkar English High school, Kuchelim, Mapusa Bardez-Goa on 25/07/2013.

Immediately two frightened victim boy students ran away from class and filed a police complaint at the Karaswada police station against the accused teacher named Mr. Dattaram Chari.

As noticed and complained by the students the accused was attending his duty after having alcohol. During the 6th period the accused was taking class for std. VIth.  While in the class he got a phone call and to receive the call he left the class. After 20 minutes he re-entered the class with a wooden stick in his hand. As soon as he re- entered the class the students could get a smell of liquor. 

He then started beating the students. He beat four students namely Krishnaveni Patil, Dadapir Honnalli, Akash Nandurkar, and Heena Jawadgi .All of them are minors. When Krishnaveni asked the accused for the permission to go out for toilet; the accused hit the girl on her back with great force.  Soon the red mark appeared on her back as a result of hitting with the stick as informed by Krishnaveni. When Dadapir said he could get a smell of alcohol the accused beat him saying the smell was not of an alcohol but that of the stick in his hand. He also beat Akash and Heena. When the accused left the class when his period ended   Akash and Dadapir ran to the nearby police station at Karaswada and filed a police complaint against the accused. The police registered the complaint given by the two minor boys and accordingly contacted parents of both the victims.

  

It is learnt that the said teacher is in the habit of having alcohol and beating students with a stick when on duty.

‘The Herald’ dated 26/07/2013 says, the state Government has come up with the new educational policy which seek to have compound walls and CCTVs in the schools to put a check and control increasing  rape cases on minors in Goa. The government instead should control malpractices of teachers like Dattaram Chari which leads to produce lewd and vulgar young minds. The accused is also in the   habit of passing vulgar comments in the class while teaching the science subject. He was circulating pornographic pictures and material to students till he got warning from some parents. Such acts of teachers will spoil the characters of students.

    It is learnt that the accused does not teach but directly gives Xerox copies of questions and answers of the examination. Even he provides question papers to few students of his choice prior to exam. If any student requests the accused to explain the content from the textbooks, then he gives punishment to those students along with vulgar comments like, ghati students, illegitimate children. All the time he teaches only biology and not physics or chemistry which is also a part from science subject. Even when he teaches other science subjects like Biology he mixes it up with lewd pornography.

 Some time he comes in classes and organises a sleeping competition asking the students to sleep only to avoid teaching. He tells students whoever sleeps fast would be awarded with 5 marks in his subject. He also asks students to collect money to arrange parties and enjoy hot drinks.  

He also threatens students that if they tell anything to anybody against him then he would set question papers on portion which is not touched by him.

Always he enters very late to class; sometime he does not even turn up to class and the class is left unattended with students out of the class shouting and roaming all over the school premises even disturbing the other classes and most of the time he send students on the playground for P.E. during Science/ Geography period which he takes. He is not serious about teaching even to higher classes of IXth and Xth.

It is very much depressing  that the said teacher is  the incharge of Harassment and victimise committee of the school as well as acting Headmaster of the school.

There are various complaints about the accused from students as well as from parents but no action is taken against the said accused by the school management.

Many a time students have complained to the manager about the said accused for various reasons but the manager dispelled the students and did not allow anybody to give written complain about the accused. None of his malpractices are stopped by the management. Thus understood that the management is least bothered about the students’ future and rather protects the said accused for unknown reasons. 

   

The accused teacher is a surplus Asstt. Teacher from Peoples’ High School at Kamurlim, Bardez-Goa deputed in Dr. Ambedkar English High School, Kuchelim, Mapusa Bardez-Goa in 2012.  

Since many parents are illiterate they do not speak out openly. The students too get afraid to speak on his malpractices in the fear that the accused and the management would take an action against them. The students are afraid that the management may deliberately fail them in the exam  to demoralize them or would expel them from school. So the students here have become silent sufferers at the hands of accused and the management of the school.

Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Morcha condemns such acts of malpractices and the act of corporal punishment meted out to the students by the accused.

You are therefore urged to take immediate punitive action against the erring teacher within one week failing which we will be forced to take further steps.

Thanking you                                             

Yours faithfully             

                                                            

      Sd/- 

                                             

Gautam Kamble

President

Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Morcha,

Mapusa Unit.   

Bharatiya Vidhayarthi Morcha strongly condemns the mid day meal scheme

  

The government’s policy of the Mid-Day Meal distribution in  schools all over the country has proved failure from the date of its implementation till date. Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Morcha (भारतीय विध्यार्थी मोर्चा), Goa Unit strongly condemns the scheme as it has taken its heavy toll on human lives all over India and advises the state government to stop the scheme immediately.

Along with number of students and parents some innocent teachers have also became victims of the scheme and have lost their services. There have been cases in different parts of India of students’ suffering from vomiting, stomach-ache as a result of having mid-day meal in schools. It is heart wrenching to hear about the case where 23 students died of food- poisoning in Bihar recently. There have been cases of food poisoning through the mid day meal in Orissa and in Madhya Pradesh on 27/7/2013.

The schools in Goa are not exception to such cases. There has been a case of food poisoning through the mid day meal in Usgao- Ponda in St. Joseph High School where 23 students were victims of the mid day meal. There has been a case of food poisoning even in Korgao at Kamaleshwar High School on 27/7/2013 where 19 students fell sick. There were worms and spiders in the mid day meal that the students ate and suffered from stomach ache and had to be immediately admitted in the hospital. There have been three cases of food poisoning through the mid day meal within a month in the state of Goa which has put the parents, children as well as teachers under stress and has made them fearful.

  The mid day meal which was supposed to be introduced by the government to build and maintain students’ good health has proved to deteriorate the students’ health to such an extent that some students have lost their lives and the parents have lost their children. The question arose in the young minds of students and parents, whether such cases of food poisoning through the mid day meal scheme are accidental or deliberate.

 Considering these facts and ill effects of the mid-day meal, Bharatiya Vidhayarthi Morcha strongly condemns the mid day meal scheme and advise the state government to immediately scrape it.

 School timing must be reverted to 8.am to 1.pm so the students can have their lunch at home on time.