School asks boys, girls to come on alternate days to avoid eve teasing

Updated On: 03 July, 2019 04:17 PM IST | West Bengal | mid-day online desk

The headmaster of the government school, Rabindranath Pande said that the school was u00c3u00a2u00c2u0080u00c2u0098forcedu00c3u00a2u00c2u0080u00c2u0099 to go forward with this initiative as the school was receiving several complaints of harassment on a regular basis

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A government school in West Bengal's Malda district issued an order asking male and female students to attend classes on separate days of the week to avoid harassment. The school came up with 'odd-even' scheme in the Girija Sundari Vidya Mandir in Malda Sadar subdivision and it has drawn the criticism of its own administration which has termed the idea to be ‘bizarre’ and has called for its immediate withdrawal.

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