Goa: Goa Children Act 2003 bans corporal punishment. Hope the guidelines pave a way for strick.
In addition to this the chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Ms Shanta Sinha has issued additional guidelines to the district collector on corporal punishment and has directed schools to hold block-wise meeting for the headmasters on corporal punishment and also to convey them that serious action would be taken against school as a whole on the act of violence on the children.
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