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Date – 22nd Jun 2021

The government of Tamil Nadu on June 21, 2021 has announced guidelines for the protection of scholar from sexual violence or like advisory panel and safety audit for schools to make sure protection of scholars from sexual violence and protocol for conducting online classes.

An official release said, “Irrespective of the board of education, every school should constitute a Student Safeguarding Advisory Committee (SSAC) and the School education department would set up a state-level Central Complaint Centre (CCC) for guidance”

"Both the faculty and students should follow a dress code, appropriate for classroom settings during virtual classes. All web classes should be recorded, and a random audit should be undertaken by SSAC periodically"

The SSAC must inform the CCC immediately on receipt of a complaint, and trained multidisciplinary team members drawn from different fields would guide complainants from the state-level centre.

All interaction between CCC and callers would be documented and kept strictly confidential. "An orientation programme are going to be organised for all stakeholders associated with the schools to acquire a comprehensive understanding of provisions in POCSO Act. the school education department will provide the orientation module."

A standard, safety self audit tool would be developed by the varsity Department of Education, and it's mandatory for all school managements to suits the audit norms on an annual basis. A written document should be maintained by the SSAC to document all complaints received, both written and oral, and every one schools should per annum observe a "Child Abuse Prevention Week" (from November 15 to 22) by holding awareness programmes. SSAC should comprise the head of the school, two teachers and two parent teacher association members, a non-teaching staff to continually review, monitor to measures on all aspects of students' safety.

People were outraged after allegations of harassment of girl students at a well-liked CBSE school here by a commerce-accountancy teacher surfaced in social media last month. This teacher allegedly appeared in inappropriate dress for online classes, and against this background authorities have mandated proper code for virtual interactions between students and school. The alleged abuse and wish for shielding children became a point and therefore the teacher of the CBSE school was arrested.

Also, it prompted victims who suffered at the hands of others to return forward and lodge police complaints. Subsequently, an athletics coach and an educator of martial arts were also arrested for harassment of women. On June 16, 2021 founding father of an international school near here, who is additionally a self-styled Godman, was arrested in Delhi and brought to Chennai and remanded to judicial custody. He was arrested on the premise of complaint of victims alleging they were sexually harassed at the varsity.

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