Rashtriya Sahara, Patna, 21.4.2016

Hindustan, Patna, 21.4.2016

Dainik Bhaskar, Patna, 21.4.2016

Dainik Bhaskar, Patna, 21.4.2016

Dainik Jagran, Patna, 21.4.2016

NHRC invites books, manuscripts under Hindi writing award

scheme on Human Rights

19 April, 2016

In its efforts to encourage creative writing in Hindi on various aspects of

human rights, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has invited

books/manuscripts (original or translated) under "Mahatma Gandhi Biennial

Hindi Writing Award Scheme on Human Rights" for the year 2014 - 2015.

According to a statement by NHRC, total number of words in each

book/manuscript should be at least 30 thousand. Last date for receiving the

entries is the 31st December, 2016.

Under this scheme, three awards of Rs.75 thousand, Rs.50 thousand

and Rs.40 thousand will be given for the first, second and third position,

respectively.

The details of the above scheme and application form can be downloaded from

the Commission's website www.nhrc.nic.in or obtained free of cost by post from

NHRC's headquarter in New Delhi.

NHRC puts Centre, State on notice over JNV student death

20 April 2016 By Prameya News7 (author)

Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called for action-taken report (ATR) report within four weeks over torture and deaths in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalay in Odisha from Centre and State.

Acting on a petition filed by rights campaigner Subash Mohaptra of the city based Global Human Rights Communications, the rights panel has sought an ATR from the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Chief Secretary of the State.

The girl, a student of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Bhadrak district’s Basudevpur area, allegedly faced verbal abuse from her English teacher. As she went to school to appear for her exam on March 22 this year, the English teacher allegedly chided her and threatened to give her a ‘B’ grade. She returned home crying, but was sent back to school by her parents after being consoled.

But the teacher allegedly castigated her again following which she slashed her wrist with a razor kept in her geometry box. She was saved as the victim was rescued just in time and sent to a government hospital.

In another incident on 15th September last year, a student of the same school had committed suicide allegedly due to harassment by two women teachers. Truptimayee (16) of Bhattasahi village committed suicide due to corporal punishment committed on her by two lady teachers.

Though her father registered the complaint with police, no legal action has been initiated against them yet. On September 15 last year, Truptimayee allegedly committed suicide in the school’s hostel.

Her father lodged an FIR where he had accused teachers - Priyambada Samal and Chalantika Parida - of torturing her. School principal K Kripanandanam only disengaged a contractual teacher Chalantika Parida from her service after the incident while another teacher Samal in on leave on health grounds.

None of the victims and their families has been provided any compensation.

The petitioner has sought the rights panel to direct the Centre and the State to re move the teacher from Service and take all the steps to bring the culprits into court of justice, along with Rs. 10 lakh as victims compensation each.

“It is unfortunate that the educational institutions have badly failed to perform its role and brought a culture of torture and violence to which actually they are meant to curb”, Mohapatra told.

He added, “Only stringent action against the culprits and strict implementation of the accountability procedure can teach the culprits a lesson.”