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.
