DC impact: SL Tamil students readmitted to school
The 55 students, of which 21 are girls, are being provided with free education and free accommodation since June this year.
Chennai: Five Sri Lankan Tamil students, asked to leave their institutions for not submitting required documents, have been readmitted by school authorities in Acharapakkam in Kancheepuram district after Deccan Chronicle carried a series of reports on the plight of such students.
The district chief educational officer gave orders to private school authorities to admit the students after DC carried reports about the future of these five students and 50 others being bleak after district authorities allegedly harassing them after complaints that they were falsely labeled as refugees and war survivors to get admissions in government and private schools.
The home that houses these students is run by an NGO, Bright Society, was asked on Monday to shift the girl students to a separate facility within the next two months. As DC carried their plight, the CEO, who was sitting on the issue for the past two months, reportedly gave instructions to ensure that the students are not sent from schools for not producing valid certificates.
“We were told that these students can continue their studies at the private and government schools. We agree that we need to produce required certificates to get admissions, but since it took a lot of time for us to get these documents we could not produce them,” Bright Society secretary G Gnanadeepan said.
The schools in question had allegedly asked the students to produce transfer certificates and migration certificates for admissions and had told them to leave if they don’t produce them. “Now, after our plight has been highlighted by Deccan Chronicle, finally the children have been re-admitted to the schools,” Mr Gnanadeepan said.
The 55 students, of which 21 are girls, are being provided with free education and free accommodation since June this year after the NGO moved out of its facility in Bengaluru after having provided free education to over 5,000 Sri Lankan refugees, most of whom ended up in good jobs and some had even gone abroad.
The NGO is being hounded and harassed by the district administration after CWC member Zaheruddin Mohammed inspected the house on Friday and declared it “illegal” in a report submitted to the district collector.