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A 13-year-old lad with autism and intelligence disablement has been denied admittance to the hostel of C.H. Mohammed Koya Memorial State Institute for the Mentally Challenged (SIMC) astatine Pangappara present contempt a directive from the Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
The SIMC functions nether the General Education department.
The boy’s grandma who went to SIMC connected Monday said she was told the support of the Minister for General Education was needed for the lad to beryllium admitted. It was hinted to them that determination were different institutions excessively that were unfastened for peculiar children.
She said they had submitted a petition to the Chief Minister and were told the substance would beryllium forwarded to the Minister for General Education. However, she had not heard from immoderate authoritative since.
When contacted, the bureau of the Minister for General Education said the substance had not travel to their attention. However, the boy’s household could taxable a ailment to the Minister directly.
The grandma who is 63 said the lad and his parent were surviving with them. However, successful the lack of schoolhouse helium was astatine location passim and had nary 1 whom helium could play oregon interact with.
The lad had not been going to schoolhouse since September past year. He had been denied introduction to the schoolroom connected assorted grounds. When she enquired, she was told to telephone archetypal and past visit, the grandma had said successful her plea to the kid rights panel.
Directive to DGE, schoolhouse manager
The sheet had precocious directed the SIMC manager to instrumentality steps to guarantee further acquisition of the boy. It had besides asked the Director of General Education (DGE) to analyse the reasons for the disruption of the boy’s acquisition and instrumentality disciplinary enactment against those responsible.
The committee had asked the territory constabulary main to inquire into the ‘insulting’ remarks against the lad successful the study submitted to the committee by the SIMC director. The territory kid extortion serviceman (DCPO) had been asked to supply the lad counselling if request beryllium and guarantee that helium was getting uninterrupted aesculapian treatment.
The DCPO nether the Women and Child Development section had reported that the boy’s parent was mentally unsound and could not instrumentality attraction of him. His begetter was dead. His grandparents who lived adjacent could not guarantee his acquisition oregon peculiar grooming helium required. He was undergoing attraction astatine SAT Hospital.
The petitioner had told the committee that her hubby was sick and they had nary relatives to enactment them. They were babelike connected immoderate she earned to marque ends meet.
