The Gujarat larger training commissioner has written to the belief of a faculty in Valsad in reference to the bodily and psychological harassment grievance filed by a senior professor in opposition to the school principal final 12 months, sources stated on Saturday.
The upper training commissioner wrote a letter to the school belief on Friday directing them to take motion in opposition to the principal and inform them in three days with the motion taken report.
A replica of the letter, which The Indian Express has seen, states that “a senior professor of faculty in Valsad, had knowledgeable the school trustees and the Vice-Chancellor of Veer Narmad South Gujarat College (VNSGU) on Might 23 final 12 months concerning the principal bodily and mentally harassing her”.
Primarily based on the girl’s grievance, the school had shaped a probe committee. The panel had discovered the allegations leveled on the principal “real” whereas stating that the “principal is responsible”. The college authorities of their probe had additionally discovered the accused responsible. Nevertheless, regardless of the principal being discovered responsible, “no motion has been taken in opposition to him thus far”, stated sources.
“Because the grievance is real and the accused is discovered responsible beneath Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act 2013, the belief ought to take motion in opposition to him and report again in three days,” stated the letter.
On the premise of the allegations raised by the senior professor, the school belief had shaped a five-member committee to probe. The committee submitted their report on 19 September 2023, holding the principal responsible. The identical report was despatched to the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of the VNSGU. The college authorities additionally had probed and located allegations leveled on him have been “real”.
Fed up of inaction, the girl lastly wrote to the Increased Schooling Commissioner.
The professor stated, “I hope I’ll get justice now. Since final 12 months, I’ve been ready for motion to be taken in opposition to him. I don’t need our faculty’s title to get tarnished… that’s the reason I used to be silent. The principal has threatened that no motion will probably be taken in opposition to him resulting from his affect.”Regardless of makes an attempt to contact the school trustee Kirti Desai, he remained unavailable for his remarks.
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