Thiruvananthapuram: Students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in Kerala could meet their parents not once but four times a month following a direction from Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
The order of the commission followed a complaint filed by K. Radhakrishnan from Vallanghy, Nemmara, against the authorities of JNV at Malampuzha. He had maintained that the school allowed the parents to meet their wards only once a month, mostly on the second Saturdays, The Hindu said in a report.
The commission has asked the deputy commissioner of JNV, Hyderabad region and the assistant commissioner of JNV to issue circulars to all the 14 schools in Kerala to permit parents to meet their children at least once a week.
In its order, the commission said that restricting parents to meet their children is a “serious violation of child rights”.
“It is a gross violation of the rights of children. We cannot brook such violations under any circumstances,” commission member K Nazeer told the Hindu. Restricting parents from meeting children is also one of the reasons for dropouts, he added.
JNVs run under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development. They are managed as residential schools at the district level, admitting students from class VI to class XI.