Following a number of allegations of teachers misbehaving with girl students, the state school education department has decided to formulate guidelines for teachers of the government and government-aided schools.
Those schools affiliated to ICSE and CBSE have already formulated guidelines, following alleged misbehaviour of the principal of a city school. According to the sources of the department, the state advisory committee on education had been asked to formulate guidelines for the teachers. The document would be scrutinised by the department after which it would be sanctioned.
“We received several complaints regarding the behaviour of teachers. The department decided to formulate guidelines in the wake of incidents in schools, which not only affected the students but also marred the academic atmosphere,” said a senior official of the department.
It was learnt that the district inspector of schools on instructions from the directorate of school education department would distribute the guidelines to all government schools.
There have been several cases of student abuse by teachers.
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Poll panel to give ‘maximum’ force coverage
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KOLKATA, JULY 7
The West Bengal election commission on Sunday said that it would try to provide “maximum force coverage” with the central paramilitary forces available at their hands. Commission secretary Tapas Ray on late evening informed that the deployment of both central and state forces at the polling stations would begin from Monday.
“Some sections of central forces have arrived at the state and the commission is hopeful that the rest of the central forces will come by tomorrow. The commission is focusing on deploying a large part of central forces at the polling stations in an attempt to ensure the electorates a peaceful voting day,” Mr Ray said.
Mr Ray also said that area march would soon begin once the force
reaches the polling stations. On Monday, SEC will hold a meeting with the DMs and SPs of eight districts which will go to polls on the last two panchayat phases. Mr Ray further added that 20 companies of central forces from the 42 companies CRPF stationed at Jangalmahal would be used in the polls.