Fwd: RTE Act लागू होने के बाद भी रौप गाँव घसिया बस्ती रावर्ट्सगंज, सोनभद्र में सरकारी प्राथमिक विद्यालय न होने से यहाँ के 105 बच्चो के नियमित व गुणवत्तापूर्ण शिक्षा से वंचित होने के सन्दर्भ में।

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सेवा में,

            सदस्य,

 राष्ट्रीय बाल अधिकार संरक्षण आयोग

            नई दिल्ली।

विषय : RTE Act लागू होने के बाद भी रौप गाँव घसिया बस्ती रावर्ट्सगंज, सोनभद्र में सरकारी प्राथमिक विद्यालय न होने से यहाँ के 105 बच्चो के नियमित व गुणवत्तापूर्ण शिक्षा से वंचित होने के सन्दर्भ में।

महोदय,

            सोनभद्र जिले के रावर्ट्सगंज के पास रौप गाँव में घसिया जन जाति के 71 परिवारों रहते है । घसिया जनजाति अपने परम्परागत ''करमा नृत्य'' को कर अपना जीविकोपार्जन करता रहा है । इनकी आर्थिक स्थिति बहुत ही खराब है । इनकी निम्न आर्थिक स्थिति और स्वयं की अशिक्षा का असर इनके बच्चों की शिक्षा पर पड़ रहा है।

            रौप गाँव में सरकारी विद्यालय न होने से बच्चो को रोड़ पार कर दूसरे गाँव लोढ़ी के प्राथमिक विद्यालय में जाना पड़ता है । लेकिन स्कूल जाने के लिए उन बच्चो को राष्ट्रीय राज मार्ग (वाराणसी-शक्तिनगर) को पार करके जाना पड़ता है | यह बहुत बड़ा खनन क्षेत्र भी है जिससे यह मार्ग दुर्घटना बाहुल्य भी है क्योकि इस पर 24 घंटे ट्रक, बस और बड़ी गाडिया चलती रहती है | | जिससे अक्सर रोड़ पार करने में दुर्घटना होती रहती है | इस बस्ती के कुछ बच्चे भी पूर्व में दुर्घटना के शिकार हो गये। जिसकी वजह से बच्चों के अभिभावक बच्चो को स्कूल भेजने में डरते है | साथ ही जनजाति समुदाय के होने से उक्त विद्यालय में अध्यापक यहां के बच्चों पर कोई विशेष ध्यान नहीं देते है | जिसके कारण ड्राप आउट बच्चों की संख्या दिन प्रतिदिन बढ़ती रहती है और जो बच्चें जाते भी है उनका ठहराव व नियमितिता नहीं रहती है।

            बस्ती में 6-14 साल के कुल 105 बच्चें है। जिनमें से केवल 28 बच्चें स्कूल जाते है, लेकिन दुर्घटना के डर से नियमितिता नहीं है। जिसकी वजह से इनमें कक्षावार दक्षता का अभाव है। 32 बच्चें ऐसे है जिनका नामांकन तो है लेकिन ये कभी विद्यालय नहीं जाते हैं। 29 बच्चें ड्राप आउट है इसके बावजूद स्थानीय शिक्षा विभाग व विद्यालय प्रशासन की कोई संवेदना इन बच्चों के प्रति नहीं दिखाई पड़ती है।

समुदाय व संस्था द्वारा विगत कई सालों से बस्ती में सरकारी प्राथमिक विद्यालय की मांग होती रही है । काफी प्रयासो के बाद और माननीय डा0 योगेश दूबे, राष्ट्रीय बाल अधिकार संरक्षण आयोग जी की पहल पर यहां सरकारी प्राथमिक विद्यालय के लिये बस्ती में जमीन की पैमाइस कराकर भूमि पूजन भी किया गया |

इसके बाद बस्ती में मानवाधिकार जननिगरानी समिती द्वारा निर्मित सेन्टर पर एक सरकारी शिक्षिका की नियुक्ति भी की गयी। नियुक्त शिक्षिका दुसरे जाती की होने के कारण इन बच्चों को पसन्द नहीं करती थी और बच्चों को मारती भी थी । साथ ही कोई बहाना ढूढ़ कर यहां से निकलना चाहती थी । इसी कारण दो तीन महिने में उसने अपना तबादला पास के दूसरे सरकारी विद्यालय में करवा लिया । अतः वर्तमान में फिर से यहां के बच्चे शिक्षा से वंचित हो गये लेकिन स्थानीय प्रशासन संवेदनशून्य बना हुआ है और इनकी तरफ से कोई पहल नहीं की जा रही है।

            अतः आप से विनम्र अनुरोध है कि कृपया इस बात को ध्यान में रखते हुए कि रौप गावं में पहले एक सरकारी शिक्षक की नियुक्ति की गए और उसके बाद जमीन की पैमाईश की गए और स्कूल भवन निर्माण के लिए भूमि पूजन किया गया और निर्माण कार्य शुरू किया गया | जो की शिक्षा विभाग द्वारा ही किया गया है | यदि इतना कार्यवाही के बाद निर्माण कार्य रोका गया तो यह बात की जवाबदेही शिक्षा विभाग से माँगी जाय कि किस आधार पर जमीन की पैमाईश, स्कूल भवन निर्माण और शिक्षक की नियुक्ति की गयी थी ?

उक्त तथ्यों को संज्ञान में लेते हुये और शिक्षा अधिकार अधि0-2009 के तहत उचित कार्यवाही करते हुये 105 बच्चों की सुचारू रूप से गुणवत्तापूर्ण व नियमित शैक्षणिक प्रक्रिया चलाने की व्यवस्था करने हेतु वहा रुके हुए स्कूल भवन निर्माण कार्य को जल्द से जल्द शुरू किये जाने का आदेश दे और जब तक निर्माण कार्य पूरा नहीं हो जाता तब तक वहा शिक्षक की नियुक्ति की जाय जिससे ये बच्चे भी समाज व शिक्षा की मुख्य धारा से जुड़कर अपने सुनहले भविष्य का सपना साकार कर सकें।

संलग्नक- 1. 6-14 वर्ष के स्कूल जाने और स्कूल से बाहर बच्चों की सूची ।

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Reality of violence against women: a story of patriarchal local thinking bringing impact on international media

On the eve of international women day PVCHR is delighted to share the video “The Man In The Guava Tree: A Story on Media Ethics and Global Responsibility” http://vimeo.com/59711847.

One of founder of PVCHR Shruti read the story published in media and she immediately doubt on patriarchal manipulation from local media people. After she shared the story and her doubt to the activist of PVCHR.  

Immediately the activist went to verify the information and talked with Sanjay his mother Kushma Devi and also with Sanjay Sister Nisha.

After knowing the one side fact the activist went to meet with Sanjay’s wife Tara. She said that I was a branded as a witch and they asked me to leave the house along with children and they dragged me out. I started crying and asked my mother in law that where I would go with children. My sister in law said there was no space for evil spirits inside the house.

I had to spent days without food and whenever I got something I shared it with my children. One day my sister in law dragged me on road from near the house and I came to my mother’s house with children. Upset and in tension my husband climbed up a Guava tree.

I don’t want my husband to climb down the tree which he is living on due to my mother in law and my sister in law. I don’t want to stay with my in laws and once my husband gets down I will bring him to my parents house. My children are crying for their father and I am crying for my husband. Until I am able to live with my husband and children I will not get relief. I fear what my husband might be eating and when I try to eat something I cry.
But it is mostly a story about the media's chase for news with a sensational value of patriarchal mind set at the expense of the truth-value to whom Sanjay and his wife Tara fell victims. 

But without knowing the fact few media published “Man lives in tree for nine months - and won't come down until wife says sorry for cheating on him.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250695/Man-lives-tree-months--wont-come-wife-says-sorry-cheating-him.html

Cuckolded Indian man lives in tree for nine months waiting for apologyhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9755653/Cuckolded-Indian-man-lives-in-tree-for-nine-months-waiting-for-apology.html
During that time an volunteer Ms. Sofie Rordam from Denmark was in PVCHR for technical assistance in corporation with Dignity : danish Institue against torture.She went along with activists and prepared the documentary. Please watch the story and fight back patriarchy in India in particulars and in world in general.

NHRC issues notice to Maharashtra Govt. on alleged rape and killing of three minor sisters in District Bhandara.

 

http://www.nhrc.nic.in/dispArchive.asp?fno=12786

 

New Delhi, 21st February, 2013

The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report alleging that 3 minor sisters were raped and killed at a Dhaba in Village Lakhni, District Bhandara, Maharashtra when they went there in search of food. The Commission has issued a notice to the Chief Secretary, Maharashtra Govt. calling for a report in the matter within four weeks. The incident is reported to have happened on 15th February, 2013. 

Allegedly, the three sisters were aged 05, 09, and 11 years respectively. Their bodies were found in a well on the outskirts of the village. They belong to a poor family. Quoting the villagers, the media report said that the post-mortem of the bodies was done only when they protested. 

 

Link of complain:

 

http://www.testimonialtherapy.org/2013/02/3-minor-sisters-looking-for-food-raped.html

PVCHR Communication <cfr.pvchr@gmail.com>
Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:53 PM
To: covdnhrc <covdnhrc@nic.in>, jrlawnhrc <jrlawnhrc@hub.nic.in>
Cc: lenin lenin@pvchr.asia

To,
The Chairperson
National Human Rights Commission
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

I want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in NDTV on 20th February, 2013 regarding 3 minor sisters looking for food raped, murdered at a dhaba in Maharashtra http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/3-minor-sisters-looking-for-food-raped-murdered-at-a-dhaba-in-maharashtra-333117

3 minor sisters looking for food raped, murdered at a dhaba in Maharashtra

Reported by Saurabh Gupta, Edited by Surabhi Malik | Updated: February 20, 2013 10:14 IST

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Mumbai: As India celebrated the One Billion Rising movement to fight violence against women on February 14, three little sisters aged five, nine and 11, went missing from their home in a small Maharashtra village. Four days later, their dead bodies were found in a well on the outskirts of the village, next to a roadside dhaba or eatery.

Autopsies have confirmed that the three children were brutally raped and killed before their bodies were thrown into the well. In terrible irony, their tiny slippers were found next to empty liquor bottles. A shocking story of extreme poverty, hunger and assault has since come to light.

Police say the three fatherless children - whose mother works as a domestic help in Lakhni village of Bhandara district and was away from home - were hungry and left home on Thursday afternoon in search of food. They found their way to the dhaba, where they were brutally raped and murdered.

That evening, their mother filed a missing persons complaint with the police. When their bodies were discovered, the police reportedly said the children, driven by poverty and hunger, could have killed themselves. Local residents say it was only when they protested that autopsies were conducted on the bodies. The post-mortem reports confirmed horrific assault.

The police have since registered a case of rape and murder and say investigations are on to trace the unidentified attackers. Rajendra Singh, Inspector General of Police, Nagpur Range told NDTV, "We have checked out 100 to 150 people and interrogated 10 to 15." Six-seven special teams have been formed to probe the incident, police sources have said.

Villagers, who are horrified at the three hungry children becoming easy prey to such brutal assault and murder, say they have complained about such dhabas which illegally serve liquor and attract "criminal elements."

Therefore it is a kind request please take appropriate action at earliest.Thanking You
Sincerely Yours

Lenin Raghuvanshi
Secretary General
Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights
Sa 4/2 A Daulatpur, Varanasi - 221002
Mobile No: +91-9935599333

Lucknow tops in crime against children

Lenin Raghuvanshi of the People Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) stated that stigma is further aggravated by the way police and other stake holders such as government doctors behave. "They have no idea of how to handle the situation in case a small girl has been raped. The way in which they deal is insensitive to the core and illogical at times," he said. Citing an example, Lenin said, the two finger test of virginity is something which has been done away for being unreasonable and unscientific. But that's a piece of evidence in UP.

Then, systemic slackness fails to set a precedent. About two years ago, a group of 15 mothers lodged a complaint with a police station in Allahabad that the headmaster in local school called their daughter one by one under the pretext of health exam, took their clothes off and touched their private parts, while talking to them in a lewd manner. Though a case was registered, the trial is yet to begin.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Lucknow-tops-in-crime-against-children/articleshow/18522153.cms

LUCKNOW: Parents need to be more cautious, if they wish to save their children from the trauma of sexual abuse. Answers to an RTI ( right to information) query has shown that cases of child abuse have doubled in the last one year. The document reveals that some 3,324 cases were reported between 2007 and 2011. A district wise break-up of the same suggests that Lucknow recorded the maximum number of such cases - with the tally reading 147. The state capital was followed by Kanpur (114), Meerut (108), Sitapur (103), Allahabad (101), Agra (98), Moradabad (97), Shahjahanpur (94), Ghaziabad (89) and Gorakhpur (89).

This happens when social activists are confident of an 80% under-reporting of cases of child sexual abuse. They also say that parents get out of their homes to lodge a police complaint in extreme cases only. The stoic silence over child abuse has been lamented by social activists who documented the issue in the form of a report called 'Breaking the Silence'. Brought out by Human Rights Watch and endorsed by the National Human Right Commission, the report underlines the need to accept that child abuse exists, so that a concrete strategy can be formed to address the problem.

Meenakshi Ganguly, director of Human Rights Watch, South Asia, said that over 80% parents were averse to legal action against the perpetrator, as he is usually known to them, mainly due to fear of stigma. "There is a straight denial not only in case of girls, but even in case of boys," she said. This happens when more boys than girls fall prey to sexual abuse. "Parents also dismiss the problem because of their disbelief. And those who accept feel that ignoring the matter is better than facing stigma," informed Ganguly. Lenin Raghuvanshi of the People Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) stated that stigma is further aggravated by the way police and other stake holders such as government doctors behave. "They have no idea of how to handle the situation in case a small girl has been raped. The way in which they deal is insensitive to the core and illogical at times," he said. Citing an example, Lenin said, the two finger test of virginity is something which has been done away for being unreasonable and unscientific. But that's a piece of evidence in UP.

Then, systemic slackness fails to set a precedent. About two years ago, a group of 15 mothers lodged a complaint with a police station in Allahabad that the headmaster in local school called their daughter one by one under the pretext of health exam, took their clothes off and touched their private parts, while talking to them in a lewd manner. Though a case was registered, the trial is yet to begin.

Joint registrar, NHRC, Anil Parashar, who unveiled the report, said that not only parents, every sensitive individual living in the society must know what children are at the risk of abuse. "Those living in homes are comparatively safer than their counterparts living in slums, streets and homes," he said adding that UP is home to one-fifth missing children, who are highly vulnerable to abuse. Providing a probable solution to the problem, Anshumali Sharma of Childline said that sex education could be an effective means to generate consciousness among children about sexual abuse. "There is something called a 'good touch' and a 'bad touch'. Then the children can always be told that anyone touching their genitals or asking them to act in an abnormal way is not right," he said. Unfortunately, parents in UP, including those belonging to high educational and socio-economic status realms have reservations to the idea of sex education.

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Cc: lenin


To,
The Chairperson
National Human Rights Commission
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

I want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in DNA on Jan 14, 2013 http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_woman-gang-raped-murdered-and-hung-from-tree-in-bihar_1788675 and also on Hindustan Times on 04 Feb 2013 http://www.hindustantimes.com/audio-news-video/AV-India/Bhagalpur-Woman-hung-from-tree-following-alleged-gangrape/Article2-989394.aspx

Woman gang-raped, murdered and hung from tree in Bihar Published: Monday, Jan 14, 2013, 8:02 IST | Updated: Monday, Jan 14, 2013, 8:03 IST Place: Bhagalpur | Agency: PTI

Representational picture In a grim reminder of the horrific Delhi rape case, a woman who got down from a Delhi-bound train in Bhagalpur district, was gang-raped, killed and her body hung from a tree in a mango orchard. The police said the 32-year-old victim, who was a passenger of the Brahmaputra Mail that was travelling to the national capital, was dragged to the mango orchard and gang-raped by unidentified persons after she alighted from the train between Vikramshila and Kahalgaon stations. She was strangulated and her body hung from a tree late on Saturday night. The police recovered the body on Sunday and sent it to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur for post-mortem. The victim, who hails from New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, took the train from Alipore to Delhi, along with her son.

Therefore it is a kind request please take appropriate action at earliest.Thanking You
Sincerely Yours

Lenin Raghuvanshi
Secretary General
Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights
Sa 4/2 A Daulatpur, Varanasi - 221002
Mobile No: +91-9935599333