<p class="title">The impasse over resuming classes at the G D Birla Centre for Education, one of the city's prominent schools. ended on Wednesday with the school authorities suspending the principal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Classes will resume tomorrow.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Members of the guardians' forum and the school authorities reached an agreement after more than three hours of talks amid mounting pressure from several guardians and senior students to resume classes as the ICSE and ISC board examinations are nearing.</p>.<p class="bodytext">West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) chairperson Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti, who was present at the meeting, told DH that the school authorities have also agreed to install CCTV cameras across the school premises.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The school authorities had initially tried to retain the principal and reopen the school, which was rejected by the members of the guardians' forum. Finally, the authorities relented and decided to relieve the principal from all duties and send her on leave for an indefinite period. Classes will resume from tomorrow and two vice-principals of the school will run the day-to-day affairs and will be in charge. Only female attendants will be employed inside the school premises and CCTV cameras will be installed immediately. Finally, the guardians' forum will be recognised by the authorities," said Chakraborti.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A four-year-old girl student of the school was allegedly sexually assaulted by two teachers of the physical education department last Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both teachers have been arrested and charged under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Parents' onus</p>.<p class="bodytext">The principal, Sharmila Nath, was summoned by officers of the detective department at the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar on Tuesday and was interrogated for over seven hours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the meantime, another reputed school in the city has decided to ban unescorted pool cars for nursery students from January 16, 2018 and has urged parents to personally drop and pick up their kids from the school.</p>
<p class="title">The impasse over resuming classes at the G D Birla Centre for Education, one of the city's prominent schools. ended on Wednesday with the school authorities suspending the principal.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Classes will resume tomorrow.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Members of the guardians' forum and the school authorities reached an agreement after more than three hours of talks amid mounting pressure from several guardians and senior students to resume classes as the ICSE and ISC board examinations are nearing.</p>.<p class="bodytext">West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) chairperson Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti, who was present at the meeting, told DH that the school authorities have also agreed to install CCTV cameras across the school premises.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The school authorities had initially tried to retain the principal and reopen the school, which was rejected by the members of the guardians' forum. Finally, the authorities relented and decided to relieve the principal from all duties and send her on leave for an indefinite period. Classes will resume from tomorrow and two vice-principals of the school will run the day-to-day affairs and will be in charge. Only female attendants will be employed inside the school premises and CCTV cameras will be installed immediately. Finally, the guardians' forum will be recognised by the authorities," said Chakraborti.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A four-year-old girl student of the school was allegedly sexually assaulted by two teachers of the physical education department last Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Both teachers have been arrested and charged under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Parents' onus</p>.<p class="bodytext">The principal, Sharmila Nath, was summoned by officers of the detective department at the Kolkata Police headquarters at Lalbazar on Tuesday and was interrogated for over seven hours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the meantime, another reputed school in the city has decided to ban unescorted pool cars for nursery students from January 16, 2018 and has urged parents to personally drop and pick up their kids from the school.</p>
