SC students of Madurai school allege discrimination
Balajee.CR@timesgroup.com
Madurai:15.06.2019
Alleging discriminatory practices against students belonging to scheduled caste (SC) community at the panchayat union middle school in S Valayapatti village – about 40 kms from Madurai city – activists have called for an inquiry by the district school education department into the issue. Some members of the community claimed that their children have not been attending school for about a week due to the caste tension in the village.
Tension prevailed in the village on June 8 after a caste clash with members of a dominant backward class community attacking those from the SC community causing injuries to some people. Subsequently, two women, M Annalakshmi and M Jyothilakshmi from the SC community who were appointed as helper and organizer respectively at the anganwadi centre at S Valayapatti, were transferred allegedly following the protest by the backward class members. With the state human rights commission intervening, the district administration clarified that it was not a transfer but they were given additional charge.
Activists of Social Awareness Society for Youths (SASY) stated that they came to know about the discrimination in the school from a fact finding mission on the caste violence which has been simmering there for some time. R Lalithaa from SASY claimed that discriminatory practices were being carried out against the students of SC community at the school. She told TOI that the students of the community were “being made to go to school early in the morning to clean and sweep the school. They are even made to sit only in the back rows in the class”. She added that such incidents increased especially after the recent violence. About 40 students from the SC community were studying in the school, she said.
Ramesh, a villager from the SC community whose younger brother studies in the school, claimed that students from the community avoided going to the school due to caste tensions. “Our people are not allowed to walk in the same pathway as the other caste,” he alleged.
Balajee.CR@timesgroup.com
Madurai:15.06.2019
Alleging discriminatory practices against students belonging to scheduled caste (SC) community at the panchayat union middle school in S Valayapatti village – about 40 kms from Madurai city – activists have called for an inquiry by the district school education department into the issue. Some members of the community claimed that their children have not been attending school for about a week due to the caste tension in the village.
Tension prevailed in the village on June 8 after a caste clash with members of a dominant backward class community attacking those from the SC community causing injuries to some people. Subsequently, two women, M Annalakshmi and M Jyothilakshmi from the SC community who were appointed as helper and organizer respectively at the anganwadi centre at S Valayapatti, were transferred allegedly following the protest by the backward class members. With the state human rights commission intervening, the district administration clarified that it was not a transfer but they were given additional charge.
Activists of Social Awareness Society for Youths (SASY) stated that they came to know about the discrimination in the school from a fact finding mission on the caste violence which has been simmering there for some time. R Lalithaa from SASY claimed that discriminatory practices were being carried out against the students of SC community at the school. She told TOI that the students of the community were “being made to go to school early in the morning to clean and sweep the school. They are even made to sit only in the back rows in the class”. She added that such incidents increased especially after the recent violence. About 40 students from the SC community were studying in the school, she said.
Ramesh, a villager from the SC community whose younger brother studies in the school, claimed that students from the community avoided going to the school due to caste tensions. “Our people are not allowed to walk in the same pathway as the other caste,” he alleged.
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