Male teacher at Nashik school stops girl students having menstruation from planting trees
Nashik(PTI): A tribal girl student at a state-run boarding facility in Maharashtra's Nashik district has alleged a male teacher stopped her and other girls having menstruation from planting trees during a plantation drive, prompting the Tribal Development Department to order an inquiry.
In her complaint application, the class 12 student of the science faculty claimed the teacher had told her and others that trees will not grow and burn if girls with periods plant them.
The girl is an inmate of the secondary and higher secondary Ashram school for girls at Devgaon in Trimbakeshwar taluka.
A senior Tribal Development Department (TDD) official confirmed the receipt of the complaint.
Statements of all, including the students from the girl's class, teachers, the superintendent and the principal will be taken and an inquiry will be conducted, additional commissioner Sandeep Golait said.
On Wednesday, Nashik district additional collector and TDD project officer Varsha Meena met the girl at the school and asked about her problems.
The complaint stated the teacher had asked girls having menstruation to avoid planting trees during the plantation drive held last week on the premises of the school.
The school has 500 girl students.
The teacher told the girl students not to go near trees as the saplings planted last year did not grow due to menstruation, the complainant said, adding that she couldn't plant a sapling.
The girl then approached Bhagwan Madhe, Nashik district secretary, Shramjeevi Sanghatna. Madhe said the girl couldn't oppose the male teacher as he is her class teacher and had threatened her that 80 per cent of assessment marks are in the hands of school authorities.
He claimed the school has also made the Urine Pregnancy Test (UGP) compulsory for admission though there is no such rule and made students bear the cost.
Madhe said he spoke to Golait over the phone and submitted a memorandum against the concerned teacher by visiting Adivasi Vikas Bhavan in Nashik with the girl on July 26.
The teacher used to taunt the complainant and other girls. Students at the school have other complaints as well such as the unavailability of warm water to bathe and mattresses to sleep on. The school has also made the Urine Pregnancy Test (UPT) compulsory for admission though there is no such rule and made students bear the cost," he told PTI.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
