Cops arrest headmaster for ‘raping’ four girl students
Relation between teacher and student is pious. But the rape of four tribal girls at a school last week in a remote village of Orissa has made teachers hang their heads in shame. Besides, it also exposes the vulnerability of tribal girls studying in residential schools managed by the state government.
After news broke out that a headmaster and two employees of a government residential girls school of a tribal-dominated Nawrangpur district were arrested for raping four girl students for months, the whole state was in the grip of shock. The complaint was filed by a lady teacher when two of the girls were found to be having initial symptoms of pregnancy. These girls were studying at the Boda-Amada Sevashrama School in Koshamguda block, nearly 550 km from state’s capital Bhubaneswar.
The school that is meant to educate children from backward communities comes under the jurisdiction of the state government’s Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Welfare department. After the FIR was registered with the Kosagumunda Police station, headmaster Pradipta Sahoo, assistant teacher Iswar Bhotra and cook Padman Bhotra were arrested. This is not a one-off incident in the state. A number of girl students from tribal community had fled away from the N. Jhalarsing Kanyashram of the Gajapati district alleging ill-treatment and misbehaviour by some of the school teachers a few months ago.
Government has also confirmed that the incidents of sexual harassment in kanyashrams (residential girls’ schools) have soared. Earlier, the Nabarangapur sexual harassment case had rocked the Assembly. Members of the opposition demanded action against teachers and others involved in sexual abuse of tribal girls. State Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste Development Minister Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha assured leaders that stringent action would be taken against the culprits. Though government expressed concerns over the incident but it has failed to punish the culprits, claim leaders. This has forced many girls to stay at home.
A survey confirms that school dropout rate of Scheduled Caste girls in Orissa in the upper primary classes is 78 per cent. According to Gadadhar Sahoo, coordinator of Lisas, a voluntary organisation which works to provide education to downtrodden, the ground reality is scary. Jual Oram, former Union minister and president of BJP’s state unit, says: “Government staff sexually abuse tribal girls. Their security is at stake. The government should consider it seriously and I demand a judicial inquiry into the incident. ”
Relation between teacher and student is pious. But the rape of four tribal girls at a school last week in a remote village of Orissa has made teachers hang their heads in shame. Besides, it also exposes the vulnerability of tribal girls studying in residential schools managed by the state government.
After news broke out that a headmaster and two employees of a government residential girls school of a tribal-dominated Nawrangpur district were arrested for raping four girl students for months, the whole state was in the grip of shock. The complaint was filed by a lady teacher when two of the girls were found to be having initial symptoms of pregnancy. These girls were studying at the Boda-Amada Sevashrama School in Koshamguda block, nearly 550 km from state’s capital Bhubaneswar.
The school that is meant to educate children from backward communities comes under the jurisdiction of the state government’s Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Welfare department. After the FIR was registered with the Kosagumunda Police station, headmaster Pradipta Sahoo, assistant teacher Iswar Bhotra and cook Padman Bhotra were arrested. This is not a one-off incident in the state. A number of girl students from tribal community had fled away from the N. Jhalarsing Kanyashram of the Gajapati district alleging ill-treatment and misbehaviour by some of the school teachers a few months ago.
Government has also confirmed that the incidents of sexual harassment in kanyashrams (residential girls’ schools) have soared. Earlier, the Nabarangapur sexual harassment case had rocked the Assembly. Members of the opposition demanded action against teachers and others involved in sexual abuse of tribal girls. State Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste Development Minister Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha assured leaders that stringent action would be taken against the culprits. Though government expressed concerns over the incident but it has failed to punish the culprits, claim leaders. This has forced many girls to stay at home.
A survey confirms that school dropout rate of Scheduled Caste girls in Orissa in the upper primary classes is 78 per cent. According to Gadadhar Sahoo, coordinator of Lisas, a voluntary organisation which works to provide education to downtrodden, the ground reality is scary. Jual Oram, former Union minister and president of BJP’s state unit, says: “Government staff sexually abuse tribal girls. Their security is at stake. The government should consider it seriously and I demand a judicial inquiry into the incident. ”
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