La Mart and NCPCR

Perhaps power and function of NCPCR are not still well defined though it came into being way back in 2007. Were it not so how could La Martiniere contest compliance of its recommendations? School claims NCPCR’s instructions to award punishment to some teachers by denying increments to them and sack the principal for meting out corporal punishment to the students are no binding on the school governing body. However, what’s surprising during enquiry the commission did not bother to offer opportunity to the accused teachers to defend themselves, the school management contended. If true, it’s really a serious allegation. Before interfering in the incident of caning a boy that later allegedly led to his suicide Commission should have been well aware of how far it could go in the matter. If ultimately it is to yield to the school’s proclaimed right to no compliance of its recommendations, which’s very likely to happen as things stand, it’d suffer loss of face. Interestingly, earlier a three-man team passed for delegates from human resources deptt ,New Delhi and visited La Martiniere for enquiry. It’s still a mystery why these people took such a risk of visiting the school with fake identity.Now La Mart draws more attention for such controversial and bizarre incidents than the efforts being made to stop corporal punishment in this institution and bring to book those indulged in punishing a boy who’s supposed to have committed suicide on that count.