Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Nov 11: In a shocking incident Andaman and Nicobar Police today admitted a 12 year old girl in a school after rescuing her from her own house, where she was kept under strict supervision. According to villagers the supervision of her father was nothing more than a house arrest.
When the matter reached to the nearby Police Station a team of Ograbraj Police Station reached to the house of Kavita (name changed) the twelve year old girl, whose father was not allowing her to go to school. Infact the girl never went to the school and most of the time remained inside her house. She was not allowed even to mingle with people outside her house and was even not allowed to meet her uncle family living nearby.
According to villagers of nearby area the father of the girl, who seems to be under serious depression, after his wife left him, was against sending the girl to school and whenever someone advised him to send the girl to school his reply was “Let her mother come back then I shall send the girl to school.”
The police team when reached her house, found that the father of the girl was not willing to allow the girl to join school after which the SHO of PS Ograbraj, Inspector Sanjay Kumar, forcefully took the girl to Government Middle School Chouldari and requested the school authority to admit the girl under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The Inspector however refused to talk to media.
Andaman Sheekha reporter observed that later the father of the girl also reached the school, when he found that situation is going against him.
This is a commendable step by Police Department to help a girl child to join school but what about Education Department.
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was launched with an aim to provide education to every child living in remote areas. The teachers appointed under SSA are supposed to conduct regular survey to find out if there is any student, who was not admitted to school and if there is any drop out but sadly the SSA could not find a girl child, who was not sent to school for more than eight years.
