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Education Notes

RAJASTHAN UTTAR PRADESH tutor programme by the against the principal
Coaching school Child abuse indict- Vyomika Space Academy, within a week, the students

guidelines ments this pioneer space lab is claimed that the principal
funded by the Directorate
sexually molested and
Jaipur, september 29. Sambhal, september 28. of Education, Jammu. misbehaved with them
Recommendations made A private school teacher Speaking on the occa- within school premises on
in the Rajasthan govern- was arrested for inciting sion, Kishtwar’s deputy September 8 and several
ment’s guidelines for test communal hatred after she commissioner Prahlad times in the past. “When
prep/coaching institutes allegedly ordered a Muslim Bhagat said: “The lab is students opposed his acts,
statewide include no glori- student to slap a Hindu equipped with high-tech the principal assaulted
fication of toppers, results classmate for failing to telescopes, ISRO rocket them and threatened to ex-
of routine tests to be kept answer a question. and satellite, drones and pel them from the school,”
confidential, no segrega- On the basis of a com- aircraft demonstration stated their complaint.
tion of students in special plaint filed by the Hindu models. This will enable “After receiving the
batches based on ranks, boy’s father, the teacher class VI-XII students to complaint, the collec-
and a policy for easy exit was booked under IPC explore the wonders of tor immediately ordered
and fees refund within 120 sections 153A (promoting the cosmos and notable the tribal department to
days, among others. enmity between differ- space missions of ISRO to probe the matter, follow-
The nine-page guide- ent groups on grounds of acquire a deeper under- ing which a three-member
lines were issued days religion, race, etc) and 323 standing of space and in- enquiry team has been
after the state government (voluntarily causing hurt), spire students to consider constituted,” said Bhagat.
constituted a 15-member Additional Superintendent careers in space sciences Meanwhile the principal
committee headed by edu- of Police Shirish Chandra, and astronomy.” has been transferred to
cation secretary Bhawani informed the media The academy will also another school, he added.
Singh Detha to issue guide- This follows a similar host a state-level inter-
lines after a record number incident at Khubbapur school hydro rocket and MAHARASHTRA
of 23 students in Kota’s village in Muzaffarnagar in astronomy workshop on Food poisoning
test prep institutes died by August, where a teacher of October 15, in commemo-
suicide this year. a private school instructed ration of the birth anniver- complaint
“Coaching institutes students to slap a Muslim sary of former president Latur, september 13. The
should not encourage child for failing to com- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, he headmaster of a Zilla Pari-
students below class IX plete his homework. A case added. shad school in the state’s
to take admission. They was registered against ac- Latur district was suspend-
should give admission cused teacher Tripta Tyagi, CHHATTISGARH ed a day after 15 students
after screening tests and under IPC sections 323 Sexual molestation suffered food poisoning
counselling to assess their (voluntary causing hurt) symptoms, said the dis-
interest,” state the guide- and 504 (intentional insult charge trict’s primary education
lines. with intent to provoke a Gariaband, september 13. A officer.
In addition, another breach of peace). government school prin- “Fifteen out of 87 stu-
set of recommendations On September 25, the cipal in Gariaband district dents showed symptoms
have been issued to ease Supreme Court castigated has been transferred after of food poisoning after
pressure on students. the Uttar Pradesh govern- a group of 25 girl students eating khichdi and cooked
Among them: facial ment for a shoddy probe accused him of sexual mo- gram. Fifteen of them were
recognition to prevent fake into the Muzaffarnagar lestation and assault. immediately admitted to
attendance, mandatory incident. The girl students to- a government hospital in
weekly holidays, not gether with their parents Udgir for treatment. The
holding exams on days JAMMU visited the collectorate remaining 72 students
after a holiday and a code Model space lab office and submitted a were treated by the tehsil
of conduct for faculty and written complaint to the health officer in the school.
hostels. Moreover, district Jammu, september 26. A collector, said Naveen The condition of all stu-
collectors have also been space lab was inaugu- Bhagat, the district’s Assis- dents is stable after treat-
asked to sensitise coaching rated in the Government tant Commissioner (tribal ment,” added the officer.
institutes under their Higher Secondary School, department).
jurisdiction to ensure the Kishtwar district. Devel- In their written com- Paromita Sengupta with
guidelines are followed. oped under the ISRO space plaint demanding action bureau inputs

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