200 girls leave government-run residential school hostel in Jamshedpur due to lack of toilets

In a big blow to the programs of toilet in every girls’ school as a part of the ‘Swatchh Bharat’ campaign, a report has surfaced about 200 students leaving a government-run residential school at Ichagarh in Seraikela-Kharswan district of Jharkhand due to lack of toilets – it seems there are just five toilets for the 220 boarders. An unimaginable ratio by any standards.
This town is located hardly 50-Km from the country's premier steel town of Jamshedpur as reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 2 August 2015.

In view of shortage of toilets, the girls had no other alternative but to relieve themselves in the nearby fields, where they were regularly harassed by the local boys. The school warden had approached the Ichagarh police with a written complaint requesting them to check the growing incidents of harassment and the police have intensified patrolling in the area.
Unfortunately, the school does not have any boundary wall and the local boys continue to harass the girls, at times hurling stones at the hostel at night. The school has students up to Class XII.
Obviously, under such conditions, school dropouts will increase and those in the seat of power must work out suitable solutions to overcome such situations.
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Three schoolgirls of Sakchi, Jamshedpur, had to jump of a moving bus to escape from the clutches of eve-teasers traveling in the bus. All the girls studied in the same school and had boarded the bus at Sakchi to go home when the men started teasing them.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 9 August 2015.

It seems the girls had complained to the bus driver and the conductor and also asked them to stop the bus, but their pleas were ignored because the teasers were friends of the driver. Therefore, the girls were forced to jump out from the running bus. One of the girls suffered injuries and was shifted to MGM Hospital and admitted.
The police later nabbed the driver and two of the teasers and seized the bus.
Incidentally, the girls were not regulars on the route and it was not the usual bus in which they generally travel from Sakchi to Mango.
Of late it has become the craze to coin new phrases in order to educate the masses about various aspects of life and living that should come to them automatically – one of these is the ‘beti bachao’ andolan (or Save the daughter or girl child). The incident in Sakchi should act as an eye opener that photo ops and selfies with daughter are not the solution to instill the basic civic sense among the people.
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