Pathetic condition of
Asharm Shala (tribal schools) :High Court
Treats letter as PIL and issue Notice
to Maharashtra Govt.
Nagpur
-11th September 2012
The letter written by Tribal
activist Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti on 30/06/2012 on pathetic
condition of tribal residency school popularly known as Ashram shala to Hon’ble
Chief Justice M.S.SHAH of Mumbai high court has been treated as Public Interest Litigation(PIL-No.51 of
2012) by
Hon,Ble Chief Justice was listed before Nagpur bench of the Bombay High
Court comprising justice Pratap v. Hardas and justice M.L .Tahaliyani and High court issued notice to
Maharashtra Govt to file an affidavit on plight of ashram schools across
Maharashtra that remain in limelight for various controversies, including poor
state of affairs, financial irregularities and mismanagement . High court has asked petitioner Kishore
Tiwari to present personally on next hearing which is fixed on 14th
sept. 2012 .
Recently in July when death of
innocent tribal students reported in one of Ashram shala (Tribal school) there
were massive media reprts regarding pathetic condition of these tribal schools
hence disturbed with these reports petitioner directly wrote a letter Hon,Ble
High Court for intervention and
direction and informed that
1. Govt. of Maharashtra is
pending money on tribal student more than any rich person in metro but is
residency schools popularly known as Ashram Shalas are in very petty and pathetic .the facilities provided by school
management are of quality and are in very bad condition.9 % of total state
Govt. budget is being reserved and spend
on the tribal students and development of tribal and around
Rs.4000 crore is allotted and spent
each year and lot of purchases
are made on paper for creating requisite facilities as student are on record
provided A to Z items that can change complete scenario of tribal in state but ground reality is completely different as
these tribal students are denied basic needs and food and they are completely
neglected .
2.Tribal students are given
school uniforms but this till today uniform has not been supplied .very poor
quality mattress and blanket have been provided. tribal deptt. has
purchased very poor quality mattress @Rs.2100/- where is would
have been possible for Govt. to provide good quality mattress and balkents are
till missing from these tribal schools . Quality of food and vegetable are too
poor to eat hence we want there should complete enquiry in the pathetic state
of affairs of tribal schools in vidarbha , Tiwari said.
The petitioner with fact finding
team has visited more than 29 such
Tribal schools in Vidarbha, run by private parties mainly MLAs and MPs where they saw pitiable conditions of such
schools, students are packed in cramped rooms without proper security and there
are no toilets available even for girls. Government grants are taken for
non-existent students and no medical aids were being availed due to which 75
students had died in three years. Not just students but teaching and
non-teaching staff are also exploited. Petitioner wants High court to remind the
government of article 21 of the constitution that gave the citizens the right
to live with dignity. Earlier too HC was informed pathetic condition and ill
management and shocking incidents such
as sexual exploitation of a tribal girl by school staff, deaths of children due
to unavailability of medical treatment and supply of adulterated food grains to
Ashramshalas but even after HC order
Govt. failed to take any action against
the managements of these tribal schools ,Tiwari added.
“we will pus up demand of
scraping these traibal schools in remote forest area and all students should be
given accommodation and all facilities
in hostels in near taluka or district place and they should be given education
with main stream students as this will be cost saving and result oriented
solution to tribal school crisis which has been multi-crore earning industry
for all politicians ” Tiwari added.
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