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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, March 18, 2019
Royal Institute: Viyathmaga Kamal Gunaratne Puts NCPA, Education Ministry And Police In A Major General Soup
The unlawful sacking of a 12 year old grade 7 student of the Royal Institute Nugegoda Branch by its Director of Administration Retired Major General Kamal Gunaratne,
has now triggered the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka to summon
officials of the Ministry of Education, National Child Protection Bureau
and the Mirihana Police Women/Child Abuse Protection Unit for ignoring a
complaint made by the student’s parent to each of their respective
offices on the 25th of January 2019.
The Grade 7 student has been deprived of an education since the Royal Institute Nugegoda Branch unlawfully terminated the student on the 25th of January 2019.
Based on a complaint filed by the parent bearing number HRC/2989/18 to
the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, it summoned its meeting with
the three respective bodies for a meeting which is to be held on the
22nd of March 2019 at their 6th floor office at 14, R.A.De Mel Mawatha
Colombo 4.
The parent seeking relief has also officially filed complaints at the
Police Commission, President’s Office and also the Child Court at
Battaramulla.
The Child Court at Battaramulla in its bid to hear the complaint bearing
number 5376/P has summoned officials of the Royal Institute, the parent
and the child to a meeting with the presiding Judge on the 19th of
March 2019.
The unethical practice employed by the Royal Institute also deprived the
student who was eagerly waiting to go on his school class trip on the
27th of February 2019. The student had also paid the class trip fee
which was Rs 3,700. However the Royal Institute, who had sent a letter
by registered post to the parent on the 25th of February 2019 stating
that the child’s education has been terminated, ejected the student from
his class at the commencement of school on the 26th of February 2019
and had him sit in the school office the entire day.
Despite
being deprived of an education on that day, the child was also exposed
to much ridicule by other staff members who happened to pass him by
whilst been made to sit in the school office.
The school refunded the Rs 3,700 to the child and stated that he won’t
be going on the school trip with his class mates the following day.
This entire saga began in September 2018 when Royal Institute much
against a letter issued to the parents in 2014 went on to increase the
school fees by exorbitant proportions.
Many parents found it difficult to meet the hiked up fees when school
commenced for the new academic year in September 2010, despite the
school stating that fees would be increased bi-annually only by 12%. The
school in fact increased the school fees annually.