BENGALURU: Child rights activists on Saturday alleged that a couple of government schoolteachers are neglecting their accountability of informing their superiors about absenteeism amongst lady students, who they fear are potential child brides.
At an interactive session organised through Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR), activists mentioned their visits to more than one faculties published that lecturers, who're a number of the first to get clues about ladies being driven into marriage, don't seem to be doing the requisite to forestall it.
Representatives from NGOs mentioned several lecturers weren't marking ladies provide or absent within the attendance registry o reduce their own work of following up on ladies who keep lacking faculty.
“The y are using dots against their names as an alternative of saying whether they are provide or absent. Teachers don’t wish to pursue the subject with higher government, write letters and even alert the child welfare committee,” an activist mentioned.
Representatives from more than one districts attended the session, which also had some government officials.
Nagendra Madhyastha, director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, training division, mentioned he’ll deliver this to the attention of higher government. Vasudeva Sharma, govt director, Child Rights Trust, mentioned the government will have to run the child marriage prevention helpline 24/7. At provide, it really works simplest from 10am to 5pm.
The tournament that geared toward communicating with representatives from many departments — child marriage coverage officers — witnessed a deficient response, with only some officials turning up.
At an interactive session organised through Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR), activists mentioned their visits to more than one faculties published that lecturers, who're a number of the first to get clues about ladies being driven into marriage, don't seem to be doing the requisite to forestall it.
Representatives from NGOs mentioned several lecturers weren't marking ladies provide or absent within the attendance registry o reduce their own work of following up on ladies who keep lacking faculty.
“The y are using dots against their names as an alternative of saying whether they are provide or absent. Teachers don’t wish to pursue the subject with higher government, write letters and even alert the child welfare committee,” an activist mentioned.
Representatives from more than one districts attended the session, which also had some government officials.
Nagendra Madhyastha, director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, training division, mentioned he’ll deliver this to the attention of higher government. Vasudeva Sharma, govt director, Child Rights Trust, mentioned the government will have to run the child marriage prevention helpline 24/7. At provide, it really works simplest from 10am to 5pm.
The tournament that geared toward communicating with representatives from many departments — child marriage coverage officers — witnessed a deficient response, with only some officials turning up.
‘Teachers fail to check child marriages’
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