Are Schools Of Our Country Safe?

School these days are only meant to charge high fees, in these schools where clean drinking water is not available for the students how can we expect the security of children. That is why children carry water bottles from their homes. But how will they carry the security and protection from their homes? We are hearing a lot of rape and murder cases happening in the school of Delhi-NCR nowadays.

In last few days, these kinds of incidents happening frequently. Where a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Tagore Public School in the Gandhi Nagar area of Shahdara, Delhi. Not only this an innocent seven-year-old boy was brutally murdered at the Ryan International School of Gurugram and a child was killed in Ghaziabad as he was crushed by the bus of Silver Shine School.

After all these incidents, the issue of the security of school children once again raised up and became the matter of utmost concern. Someone is blaming the school administration, other’s are saying that police and administration is responsible for all these incidents. Someone is cursing the government and some are cursing their own fate.

Some lawyers have approached Supreme Court after this brutal incident of student killing at Ryan School. They have appealed and demanded the Supreme Court to make some guidelines for the safety of school children across the nation. The court has agreed to hear the case and the petition will be heard on September 15.

It is not the first time when this matter of making guidelines for the safety of school children has been raised. Whenever there is such incident took place with school children, many rules and regulations and laws has been made and imposed, and after few weeks or months, everything got dissolved.

Remember the morning of 18 November 1997. On this day, a private bus full of school children fell in the Yamuna from Wajirabad bridge. In this accident, 30 school children died and most of the children aboard the bus were the residents of Yamuna Vihar. When the incident happens, at that time the bus was taking students of Ludlow Castel School, Civil Lines, to the school.

After this incident, people raised voices and new guidelines were made and released. But after few months, everything has been changed as it was before. Remember the date of December 23, 1995. On this day, DAV Public School of Haryana, having their annual function at Rajiv Marriage Palace in Dabwali town. While the program was going on, suddenly fire catches the place and around 150 women and 130 children were burnt alive. After this incident, new guidelines were formed and issued. Imposing those laws are far away, today no one even remembers those guidelines.

It is not that there are no guidelines has been given by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for the operation of the schools. There are guidelines but the school administration doesn’t care much about them. CBSE has clearly stated that the responsibility for the security of children coming from school buses will be totally upon the bus conductor. He is the one who will be responsible and concerned about every child’s security.

At the same time, the full verification of staff working in the schools should be done with the police so that their full details are also kept with the police along with the school management. CCTV cameras should be installed in schools and to keep an eye on all the cameras, a security room should be made and the inspection personnel should be hired for the same. So that he can look after and if there is any muddle happening, then he can inform the authorities and immediate action can be taken.

All the CCTV cameras installed in school premises should be in the working condition. Not only this, entry of an outsider in the school premises should be prohibited. At the same time, parents of children and non-teaching staff should enter their full details along with address on entry register and only then they should be allowed to enter the school premises.

Apart from this, all school management should ensure that bus drivers, operators and other staff of buses are not allowed to enter the school during the school working hours. School Management should select a safe place to set up buses and take children so that any unpleasant event can be prevented.

Female attendants/cleaners should be appointed in the junior and primary wings. Principals of all schools have given strict instructions that they should cover the boundary walls with barbed wire in order to prevent any anti-social elements coming inside the school.

 

Drivers, operators and other staff of buses and other staffs like peons, gardeners, watchman, etc should not be allowed to use the toilets of students in the school premises. Toilets should be made or arranged separately for them. Counseling of these bus drivers and other staff must be held time to time by the principal of the school to ensure the safety of the students.

But I don’t think so that these directions and guidelines are being followed and compliance by any of the schools. That means all these guidelines by CBSE have remained as paperwork and the schools do not follow them. Who is responsible for this? Who will take responsibility to ensure that these rules are being followed by school officials? And if not, then why? Who is responsible when these guidelines are not being followed?

I believe that for this every unit related to the system is responsible. State Government, District Administration and Education Boards, all and everyone are responsible. Along with them, we all are somewhere responsible. Nothing will change only by making the guidelines, we have to follow them as well to bring a change.

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