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Dubbing the conditions in the state-run residential schools for tribals in Maharashtra as “pathetic”,the Bombay High Court onTuesday set up a committee headed by the chief secretary for formulating a scheme to improve the things.
The Court passed the order while hearing a PIL. It had turned newspaper reports on deaths of students at an ‘Ashramshala’ (residential school) in Dahanu,neighbouring Mumbai,into a Public Interest Litigation.
As the hearing progressed,some other incidents too were brought under the High Court’s scrutiny.
The Division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice A M Khanwilkar reminded the government of article 21 of the constitution that gave the citizens the right to live with dignity.
The committee,also comprising secretaries of PWD,health and finance departments,and will formulate a scheme to prevent recurrence of such incidents in future.
The judges mentioned that 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 foodgrains to Ashramshalas had been brought to high court’s notice in the course of the PIL.
“But orders of the High Court have brought hardly any change in the pathetic conditions…,” judges observed.
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