Nashik: A tribal girl student at a government boarding facility in Maharashtra Nashik The district has alleged that a male teacher prevented her and other girls from planting trees during a tree plantation drive, following which the Tribal Development Department ordered an inquiry.
In her complaint application, the Class 12 student of the Science Faculty claimed that the teacher had told her and others that if the trees would not grow and burn. girls with periods Put them on
The girl is an inmate of the Secondary and Higher Secondary Ashram School for Girls in Devgaon, Trimbakeshwar taluka.
A senior Tribal Development Department (TDD) official confirmed the receipt of the complaint.
Additional commissioner Sandeep Golet said, “Statements of everyone including girl students, teachers, superintendent and principal will be taken and investigated.”
On Wednesday, Nashik district’s Additional Collector and TDD Project Officer Varsha Meena met the girl student in the school and asked her problem.
The complaint said the teacher had asked menstruating girls to avoid planting trees during a tree plantation drive organized in the school premises last week.
There are 500 girl students in the school.
The teacher asked the girl students not to go near the trees as the saplings planted last year did not grow due to menstruation, the complainant said, adding that she cannot plant a sapling.
After this the girl contacted Bhagwan Madhe, Nashik district secretary of Shramjeevi Sangathan. Madhe said the girl could not oppose the male teacher as he was her class teacher and had threatened her that 80 per cent of the evaluation marks were in the hands of the school authorities.
He claimed that the school has also made urine pregnancy test (UGP) mandatory for admission, though there is no such rule and students have to bear the cost.
Madhe said he spoke to Golet over the phone and on July 26, accompanied the girl to the Adivasi Vikas Bhavan in Nashik and submitted a memorandum against the teacher concerned.
“The teacher used to taunt the complainant and other girls. There are other complaints from students in the school such as non-availability of hot water for bath and mattress for sleeping. The school has also made urine pregnancy test (UPT) mandatory for admission, however there is no such rule and the students have to bear the cost.”
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