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Students ‘beaten up’ for asking for stipend

KORAPUT: Students were allegedly beaten up by their teachers in the residential high school at Champi of Laxmipur block in Koraput district for asking their pending stipend amount. While the students protesting the action by the school authorities, gave a memorandum to the sarpanch of the panchayat, the teachers clarified that the amount would be paid only after the school receives an allotment for the academic year.

The allotment was due since last April, Dibyananda Khosl, a teacher said. While the stipend amount, which was unspent during the Dussehra vacation gets utilised in the school during the first 15 days of the opening of the school for the new academic year as the allotment for many days is not given to the schools by the Government, the stipend against the personal leave of the students during X-Mas holidays is given to the students in cash, Tankadhar Nayak, Head Master of the school added.

But unconvinced with the explanation given by the school authorities, more than 80 students from the school had left the school premises for the entire day on Tuesday and stayed in the panchayat office till Jagannath Soren, the Additional District Welfare Officer (ADWO) reached the village at around 8 p.m. While Mr. Soren was having discussion with the students some villagers attacked teachers injuring two of them, Mr. Khosla said. However, the situation was brought under control by Mr. Soren while assuring the students that the due amount would be paid within two days.

He directed the head master to pay the due amount from the available cash of the school, which could be adjusted from the allotment received later. But when the students were informed on Wednesday that they would be paid only Rs. 80, the situation was aggravated on the school premises as the students had refused to accept their stipend due amount if it was anything less than Rs. 425, which was paid earlier to the senior students of the school, Kishore Muduli, a student of class 11 said today.

While the confusion over the payment of dues, lack of allotment for the last four months to the school created disturbance in the school, children were subjected to mental agony for the possible discrimination caused due to lack of clarity in the communication between the students and teachers, villagers alleged.

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