N.Meenakshisundaram & I. Muralitharan
ABSTRACT
Due to the advancement of science and technologies in recent decades, most Students have not adequately valued the nobility of teachers and educational Institutions. Internet accessibility made learning everything easy, reducing book readings among the younger generations. During the Covid-19 lockdown in India, students were taught via the internet and online class, which gave them convenience as they could learn subjects leisurely. These practices made them forget moral values and disciplines that could be acquired only from the environment of educational institutions. In these situations, some students and staff members make false allegations, including complaints of sexual and communal harassment where public- spirited teachers strictly ask them to keep their Dignity and maintain the decorum inside the educational Institution. It is one of the reasons for lowering the standard and deteriorating goodwill of the teachers and educational institutions. These complaints and complainants make permanent stigma upon the teachers and educational institutions; consequentially, the teachers, frustrated by these tendencies, quit the profession and sometimes lead them to commit suicide, which will never be disclosed to society in any way. Therefore the investigation and redressal mechanism needs to be established specifically to handle such sensitive complaints to find out the truth during which the identity of the educational Institution and the alleged teachers should be kept secret, which the reputation of the alleged educational Institution and the livelihood, and the Dignity of the alleged Teacher may be safeguarded perhaps the complaint is a false one; besides the existing punitive actions should be made further stringent in cases where false complaints are lodged with intend to stigmatize the particular teachers and educational institutions.
Keywords: Malicious Sexual and communal harassment allegations, annoying complaints against teachers, false evidence against teachers, teacher-student relationships, and the Dignity of educational institutions.
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