In Karnataka, Dalit Students Are Forced to Clean Septic Tanks; Principal Arrested

The startling images are from Kolar’s Morarji Desai residential school. There are 243 pupils in Classes 6 through 9 at the school, 19 of them are female

Bengaluru: Following images from the campus showing Dalit children cleaning a safety tank, the principal and a teacher of a residential school in Kolar, Karnataka, were taken into custody, and four contract employees were fired. Students were shown kneeling at night with heavy schoolbags on their backs in a different video that showed the school using corporal punishment.

The startling images are from Kolar’s Morarji Desai residential school. There are 243 pupils in Classes 6 through 9 at the school, 19 of them are female.

As a form of punishment, at least four students are said to have been forced to climb down a sewage tank and clean it with their hands.

Although manual scavenging was outlawed in India almost thirty years ago, the practice is still carried out, leading to a number of deaths annually, mostly from asphyxia. In the Karnataka case, forcing kids to clean a septic tank as a kind of punishment puts them in risk and causes trauma that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

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The kids may be seen kneeling with their hands up and their luggage on their backs in a different video. While his pals attempt to assist him in drinking water, one child can be seen gasping for air.

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Outrage over the startling images led Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to step in. Muniyappa, the instructor, and Bharatamma, the principal, are in custody. Additionally, they have been suspended from their jobs due to carelessness and neglect.

The state-run Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society said that social welfare department representatives had firsthand knowledge of the school’s teachers abusing pupils.