<p>Students of a Navodaya school in Maoist-affected Dantewada have been branded as Naxals and beaten with chappals allegedly by teachers before they were rusticated for ten days.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The reports about such acts at the Kendriya Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Barsoor, in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada region, have prompted the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to issue a notice to the District Magistrate seeking a report within three weeks.<br /><br />The action came after the Commission took suo motu cognizance of a media report that some teachers beat Class X students with their sandals and described them as Naxals. The students were also rusticated for ten days, an NHRC statement said. <br /><br />The Commission said the allegations, if true , raise “serious issue of human rights violation of the students”. <br /><br />The teachers' action allegedly came after some quarrel between two groups of students.<br />The incident happened in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, which was established in 1993 and is accredited by CBSE. <br /><br />The school is located 400 kms from the state capital of Raipur.<br /><br />In another statement, the NHRC also issued a notice to a Kanker district magistrate following reports that women had to sleep on the floor after their operations for sterilisation at a camp organised at Dhaneli Kanhar. <br /><br />“Some beds were arranged by the concerned authorities only when the media persons reached the spot. <br /><br />“Reportedly, the women who came for sterilisation also had to wait for hours due to the late arrival of doctors,” the NHRC statement said. <br /><br />The District magistrate has been asked to submit a report within two weeks.</p>
<p>Students of a Navodaya school in Maoist-affected Dantewada have been branded as Naxals and beaten with chappals allegedly by teachers before they were rusticated for ten days.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The reports about such acts at the Kendriya Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Barsoor, in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada region, have prompted the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to issue a notice to the District Magistrate seeking a report within three weeks.<br /><br />The action came after the Commission took suo motu cognizance of a media report that some teachers beat Class X students with their sandals and described them as Naxals. The students were also rusticated for ten days, an NHRC statement said. <br /><br />The Commission said the allegations, if true , raise “serious issue of human rights violation of the students”. <br /><br />The teachers' action allegedly came after some quarrel between two groups of students.<br />The incident happened in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, which was established in 1993 and is accredited by CBSE. <br /><br />The school is located 400 kms from the state capital of Raipur.<br /><br />In another statement, the NHRC also issued a notice to a Kanker district magistrate following reports that women had to sleep on the floor after their operations for sterilisation at a camp organised at Dhaneli Kanhar. <br /><br />“Some beds were arranged by the concerned authorities only when the media persons reached the spot. <br /><br />“Reportedly, the women who came for sterilisation also had to wait for hours due to the late arrival of doctors,” the NHRC statement said. <br /><br />The District magistrate has been asked to submit a report within two weeks.</p>
