A day after death of a six-year-old student at a private school, the Delhi government on Sunday ordered all schools to file safety reports within a month and warned the arrogant and insensitive behavi
A day after death of a six-year-old student at a private school, the Delhi government on Sunday ordered all schools to file safety reports within a month and warned the arrogant and insensitive behaviour will not be tolerated.
As the school authorities came under severe criticism from several quarters, the Delhi government held a meeting on Sunday where issues related to safety aspects in schools were deliberated upon in detail.
In the meeting, chaired by deputy CM Manish Sisodia, it was decided to order all schools to file a report to the government within one month about safety in their premises. The government also decided to form a task force to verify the arrangements in the schools.
The Delhi government had on Saturday ordered a magisterial inquiry into Devansh Meena’s death. Mr Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, said that arrogant and insensitive behaviour of the schools on matters relating to safety of the children will not be tolerated at all. “We have asked principals of each school, be it government, MCD or private, to carry out a prima facie inspection and give us a report. As soon as we get the report, we will carry out an inspection based on their report. I will get all 3,500 schools inspected in next one month through SDMs, fire department, PWD, DJB, education department and MCD,” Mr Sisodia said.
He said that safety and security of children is a serious matter and he himself will carry out random inspection of the schools. The deputy CM also said the boy’s death had shattered everyone and that a team of government personnel will carry out inspection for an hour in each of the school buildings to ensure there is no repeat of the incident.
Devansh Meena, a student of Class 1, was found dead in a water reservoir of Ryan International School in Vasant Kunj on Saturday. The police probing the case on Sunday continued to question the school authorities, including the principal Sandhya Sabu. An FIR was registered on Saturday at Vasant Kunj North police station under Section 304 (A) of IPC against unknown persons for causing death due to negligence.
