Goa. District Salcete schools taking steps to end corporal punishment…….

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has come out with more guidelines to the district collector on corporal punishment. The guidelines have directed the collector to hold block-wise meetings for all school headmasters on corporal punishment and convey to the schools that serious action would be taken against them for any act of violence against the children.

School managements in Salcete taluka have started discussing the guidelines. Several schools have organised talks on corporal punishment.

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Man arrested for burning minor girl…..

Director of NGO, SCAN Audrey Pinto said that since the past two or three months the three accused have been allegedly assaulting the minor girl with cable wires and also burned her placing a hot, flat steel frying pan on the girl’s thighs and back resulting in the burn injuries.

In a gruesome case of child abuse, a ten year old girl employed as a maid in a house at Porvorim was admitted to the Goa Medical College and Hospital with burn injuries on her thighs and back.

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