Saturday, August 22, 2015

200 girls in India leave boarding school for lack of toilets...

More than 200 girls have left their studies at a government-run residential school at Ichagarh in Seraikela-Kharswan district, about 50 km from the country's premier steel town, because of insufficient toilets.

The Kasturba Gandhi Awasiya School has just five toilets for 220 boarders, forcing them to relieve themselves in the nearby fields, where they were regularly harassed by the local boys.

Recently, school warden Anita Bari had approached the Ichagarh police with a written complaint and asked them to check the growing incidents of harassment. The police intensified patrolling in the area after the complaint.

 "The school has no boundary wall, making it easy for the locals to harass the girls. Sometimes, stones are hurled at the hostel at night," school authorities complained. The school has students up to Class XII. Full story...

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