CHENNAI: Organisations working with schools have strongly condemned the new guidelines issued by the School Education Department for conducting events in schools.

TNIE reported on December 5 that the new guidelines mandate that only NGOs on the list maintained by the department at the state and district levels will be allowed to conduct events and those not part of this approved list must submit detailed applications to state or district-level committees which will then seek police intelligence clearance before approving.

On December 27, Collector Kavitha Ramu and Superintendent of Police Vandita Pandey visited the villagers and were informed of the discrimination faced by the villagers, he said.

MADURAI: People’s Watch (an NGO) executive director Henri Tiphagne condemned the delay in arresting the persons involved in mixing human excreta in the water tank that belongs to SC people at Vengaivasal village in Pudukkottai district.

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Meanwhile, People's Watch executive director Henri Tiphagne said the inspector involved in the case already had two SHRC complaints against him.

He said that Rajasekar had been kept at a police outpost at night despite the DGP’s recent direction that no one should be kept in police custody at night. "The CCTV footage in the said police station and the said outpost have to be seized without any delay," Tiphagne said.

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