Rajkot: The Rajkot district development officer (DDO) has ordered probe into gathering of over 100 students and some parents at a primary school allegedly to collect questions papers and leaving certificates (LCs) in Pardi village of Lodhika taluka on Saturday.
The probe was ordered after a video of the school showing students sitting on the floor and parents gathering in the campus went viral on the social media.
According to district education officials, some sort of miscommunication or misunderstanding led to gathering of so many students and parents in the school, which is in violation of the lockdown orders issued by the state government.
The students had gathered at the district panchayat-run Swami Vivekanand Primary School in Pardi on Saturday. Since the annual exams were not conducted this year because of the lockdown, all the students were given mass promotion. However, the stated government had asked all the schools to distribute question papers among students for practice during vacation.
The students are required to solve the question paper and submit it after the school reopens. On Saturday several students were called to collect question papers.
“Since Pardi is an industrial area, mainly children of migrant workers study in this school. With the government giving migrants permission to go to native, some of them were planning to leave,” said Rajkot DDO A R Ranavasiya.
“After some students came to collect the questions papers, news spread in the entire village resulting in the gathering. Some parents had come to collect LCs of their wards before going to their native,” added Ranavasiya.
The DDO has asked the district primary education officer to conduct an inquiry into the incident. “Though adequate social distancing was maintained, action will be taken if it is found that the incident as result of negligence on part of the school authorities,” Ranavasiya added.
The probe was ordered after a video of the school showing students sitting on the floor and parents gathering in the campus went viral on the social media.
According to district education officials, some sort of miscommunication or misunderstanding led to gathering of so many students and parents in the school, which is in violation of the lockdown orders issued by the state government.
The students had gathered at the district panchayat-run Swami Vivekanand Primary School in Pardi on Saturday. Since the annual exams were not conducted this year because of the lockdown, all the students were given mass promotion. However, the stated government had asked all the schools to distribute question papers among students for practice during vacation.
The students are required to solve the question paper and submit it after the school reopens. On Saturday several students were called to collect question papers.
“Since Pardi is an industrial area, mainly children of migrant workers study in this school. With the government giving migrants permission to go to native, some of them were planning to leave,” said Rajkot DDO A R Ranavasiya.
“After some students came to collect the questions papers, news spread in the entire village resulting in the gathering. Some parents had come to collect LCs of their wards before going to their native,” added Ranavasiya.
The DDO has asked the district primary education officer to conduct an inquiry into the incident. “Though adequate social distancing was maintained, action will be taken if it is found that the incident as result of negligence on part of the school authorities,” Ranavasiya added.
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