Raj govt issues guidelines to schools for safety of students

Rajasthan government today issued guidelines for schools in order to ensure the safety and security of students.
The guidelines direct every school to form a three-member vigilance committee to keep an eye on activities going on in school. The committee members would then present suggestions to the institution head.
The schools have also been instructed to get police verification of bus and auto drivers, staff members and contractual staff done.
Various other measures, including maintaining contact numbers of parents of every student and not allowing tobacco shops to be set up near school premises, have been included in the guidelines.

The directives further state that the school administration should keep an eye on the students, especially girls, when they go to attend nature's call.
"These guidelines have been issued with an aim to ensure effective control on crime against children," said Rajasthan School Education Minister, Vasudev Devnani.
The guidelines have been issued almost a fortnight after the killing of a seven-year-old student of Ryan International School in Gurgaon. Pradhuman, a Class 2 student, was found dead in a school toilet with his throat slit on September 8.
In Rajasthan's Sikar, police had arrested a school manager and a teacher, on September 18, for raping a schoolgirl several times over three to four months at a school in Ajeetgarh and forcing her to undergo an abortion.