--------------------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help others be BETTER INFORMED, The time is come for the people of Goa to ORGANISE not AGONISE !! --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN calls for action from Education Department on injection scare --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN has called upon the Education Department to involve the Village Child Committees and the Parent Teachers Associations (PTA) towards tackling the problem of injecting of school children by unknown persons with unknown substance by drawing up a comprehensive long term strategy.
In a letter to the Director of Education Mrs.Celsa Pinto GOACAN has highlighted the concerns raised by village based Consumer Forums in Salcete Taluka that primary school going children in various villages have been accosted and injected at the school gate either at the start of school time or at recess, at the end of school hours or whilst waiting at bus stops for transportation. Unknown persons are believed to have been involved in injecting predominantly girl children from various primary schools resulting in a scare as many of the parents are not forthcoming to file complaints either with the school authorities or with the concerned Police Stations. The letter with copies to the District Collectors of North and South Goa, the DIG of Police, Director of Health Services and Director, Department of Women and Child Development and Chairperson, Goa State Commission for Children calls for instruction to all Heads of Educational Institutions to take extra precaution not to permit any unauthorised persons to either enter the school premises or wait outside the school gates. The letter also calls for Staff members of the respective schools to talk to students and encourage them to come forward with any information with regards to these injections where no complaints have yet been filed. It further requests the Education Department officials to visit the schools and conduct their own enquiries. GOACAN is convinced that the Village Child Committees to be set up in Village Panchayats and Municipal Councils under the Goa Children's Act 2003 have to play a major role in taking action to nab the culprits involved in such undesirable activities. The protection of children and safe guarding their rights is primarily a community responsibility and cannot be the responsibility only of the police force. GOACAN will pursue the issue of providing adequate information and training to the members of the Village Child Committees all over Goa with the Department of Women and Child Development, Directorate of Panchayats and Directorate of Municipal Administration and Goa State Commission for Children besides taking up the issue at the forthcoming Village Panchayat Gram Sabhas through the respective Consumer Forums. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK --------------------------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.4/424 - Release Date: 8/21/2006 _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
