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According to state school Education Secretary Nandkumar, the proposed legislation is aimed at bringing an attitudinal change among the teachers and to ensure that punishments did not cause physical and mental harm to the students. The legislation will be drafted after holding detailed discussion with all concerned, including teachers, parents, and students.
Proposing that the teachers be imparted training in child psychology, the legislation will outline the departmental action to be taken in the event of physical and mental harassment of students and fix criminal liability in cases of injury, disability, and death.
The School Education Department sources said the problem is more in the schools in the rural areas where teachers recruited by panchayats on honorarium basis run the show. Majority of them do not have training and adopt all sort of punishment methods, forcing many students to drop out from schools.
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