‘ID cards indirectly reveal caste’
22/09/2019, STAFF REPORTER ,MADURAI
A man has moved the Madras High Court ( Bench) alleging that caste identity of students is being revealed indirectly through identity cards issued to them in a school.
The petitioner S. Shanmugam of Karambakudi in Pudukkottai district, a functionary of Periyar Ambedkar Makkal Kazhagam, alleged that school identity cards of the students studying in the Panchayat Union Middle School in Valaikurichi indirectly revealed their caste identity.
Though the streets where the students resided were not named after castes, it was identified as a particular street by the caste name of the residents who predominantly resided. This particular name of the street was mentioned in the identity cards, he said. He also alleged that since the conservancy worker engaged by the school had quit work, students belonging to the Scheduled Castes were asked to clean washrooms. A Division Bench of Justices T.S. Sivagnanam and R. Tharani ordered notice to the State and the Headmaster. The case was adjourned for further hearing.
22/09/2019, STAFF REPORTER ,MADURAI
A man has moved the Madras High Court ( Bench) alleging that caste identity of students is being revealed indirectly through identity cards issued to them in a school.
The petitioner S. Shanmugam of Karambakudi in Pudukkottai district, a functionary of Periyar Ambedkar Makkal Kazhagam, alleged that school identity cards of the students studying in the Panchayat Union Middle School in Valaikurichi indirectly revealed their caste identity.
Though the streets where the students resided were not named after castes, it was identified as a particular street by the caste name of the residents who predominantly resided. This particular name of the street was mentioned in the identity cards, he said. He also alleged that since the conservancy worker engaged by the school had quit work, students belonging to the Scheduled Castes were asked to clean washrooms. A Division Bench of Justices T.S. Sivagnanam and R. Tharani ordered notice to the State and the Headmaster. The case was adjourned for further hearing.
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