Puttur: Rape victim to get education outside District: NCW member
Puttur: The National Commission for Women would ensure education for Puttur gang-rape victim in outside district, NWC member Shyamala Kundar said.
After visiting the house of the victim and speaking to the girl and her parents at Puttur on Monday, she told reporters that the girl was depressed mentally due to the incident. But she has expressed her desire to continue her education and her mother also wanted her to become a higher officer. The NCW would make all arrangements to complete her education, she said.
Compensation
In order to empower her economically, the Commission has taken all steps. From the Social Welfare Department, a compensation of Rs 412250 would be credited to her bank account on July 9 and remaining Rs 4 lakh would be given to her in coming days. The Commission would take all possible steps for her education and compensate her and her parents, Kundar assured.
Friendship misused
In her 45 minutes speech, she explained the pain she has experienced. Her own classmates invited her for friendly discussion and later raped her. According to her mother, the girl used to be friendly with others and this was misused by her classmates, Kundar said.
Visits college
Kundar also visited the college where the accused was studying and discussed with the college management which has already constituted a five-member internal committee to collect the information and probe the incident. The college was given suggestions and direction to conduct awareness programmes in the college, she said.
The parents who question their daughters when they are late to homes, should keep their sons in control. Otherwise, the parents have to face the problem for mistakes done by their kids. Its parents' responsibility to educate their children about good behaviour. The Commission would take steps to make such awareness programmes more effective, Shyamala Kundar said.
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Karnataka village switches off TVs, mobiles for two hours daily to help students study
Belagavi: Every evening at 7 pm, a siren rings out in Halaga, a village near Belagavi, signalling residents to switch off all screens including televisions, mobile phones, laptops and tablets for the next two hours.
The community has voluntarily adopted this “digital-free time” to help students focus on studies and to encourage families to spend more time talking to each other. The 'digital detox' initiative, 'No TV, no mobile, just study and conversation', is said to be the first such to be adopted by a Karnataka village, Deccan Herald reported on Monday.
According to the report, Halaga, which has a population of about 12,000 and is located close to the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, launched the initiative on December 17. A siren installed at the gram panchayat office marks the start of the no-screen period at 7 pm, and another siren at 9 pm signals its end.
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Gram panchayat authorities are reaching out to those residents who are yet to comply and are urging them to stay away from screen during the two hours.
Authorities are also visiting households that have not fully adopted the practice and are encouraging parents to follow the routine strictly. Teachers and panchayat members plan to continue meeting families to ensure more participation.
The Halaga village exercise is said to be inspired by a similar experiment in Agran Dhulgaon near Sangli in Maharashtra which had a positive response on students' learning habits.
