GREEDY SCHOOL HUMILIATES & DENIES REPORT CARD TO SON OF A POOR WIDOW

SOCIAL JURIST

To,
Smt Sheila Dikshit
Hon’ble Chief Minister,
Government of NCT of Delhi,
Secretariat, IP Estate, New Delhi-2
28/03/2012

SUBJECT: GREEDY SCHOOL HUMILIATES & DENIES REPORT CARD TO SON OF A POOR WIDOW

Dear Madam,

This is to bring to your urgent notice another shocking instance of high-handedness and illegality on the part of the management of Guru Harkishan Public School, India Gate in which a Class VIII D, student, Abhishek S/o Rekha (Mobile: 9818842241) was today i.e 28/03/2012 denied his Report Card saying that it would only be given to him if he agrees to take his Transfer Certificate and leave the school.

The mother, who is a single parent, a daily-wager and a widow, had gone to the school this morning along with her son to take the Report Card where she was humiliated and threatened by the school management authorities saying she would be given the Report Card only if she either cleared the past arrears or if she agreed to take the Transfer Certificate.

Just a few months ago, Delhi High Court had directed the school management to allow the child to continue his studies in that school while paying only transportation fee. However, in violation of the court order, the school management today falsely claimed that there was an arrear of Rs 25,000 as school fee.

It needs to be mentioned that Guru Harkishan Public School is one of the many schools in Delhi which have been provided government land at concessional rate on the condition that they will provide free education to the Economically Weaker Sections.
The school has been repeatedly humiliating the minor child and her poor widowed mother simply because they are poor and they can be conveniently denied the right to education in an unaided school.

Just a few months ago, the child had been forced to get down of the school bus and brutally slapped by a school teacher and scolded despite the fact that he had already paid the transportation fee thanks to the financial assistance by an activist lawyer.

With Regards
Ashok Agarwal, Advocate
Advisor,Social Jurist
M-09811101923