Increase The Security In The Schools, Says CBSE, Issuing A Circular For The Measures To Be Taken.


After the brutal murder of a seven year old Pradyuman at Ryan International School, the Central board of secondary education (CBSE) that the school has to take strict measures for ensuring the safety of the students in the school. The senior officials there said that one the child steps into the school premises it is the complete responsibility of the school authorities to safeguard the student of any such mishappenings. 

Nirmal Singh Lotus says that the murder of the 7 year kid was not the first incident reported, in the past few years there has been a rise in the number of similar cases of molestation, torture and death of the students within the school premises, to which the school authorities refuse to take any responsibility of.
Pradyuman, a seven year old, studying in class 2 of Ryan International, was found dead with his throat slit open in the washroom on the 8th of September. 

Nirmal Singh Lotus said that CBSC released a circular in the light of the given accident, the circular contains instructions laid for the schools that aims at sensitizing the school and ensuring the safety and the security of the students during school time.
Then schools are told to strictly follow all the provisions mentioned in the circular and also asked to start implementing them right away without any delays. The provisions mentioned in the circular as follows:

Nirmal Singh Lotus says that the schools must get the security and safety audit done in their premises of any personnel from their respective local police station and ensure full security for their students. They also have to upload the reports on the CBSE website www.cbse.nic.in within the two months of the issue of the circular.
The second step that all the schools must take is to install the CCTV cameras at all the functional areas of the schools.

The police verifications must be taken very seriously, especially for the non- teaching staff, like the bus drivers, conductors, peon and the other support staff.
It would be suggested that they employ the non- teaching staff from authorized agencies.
Formulation of the teacher staff committee to get regular feedbacks from the parents with regard to the safety concerns.
Provide proper training and development to the staff to educate the students about their safety and what measures they should take in case of any such encounters.

Nirmal Singh Lotus says that this is just a brief of the guidelines issued by the CBSE board and small step by the higher education authorities to look after their students.



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