CEO directed to pay for disfigured classrooms

Child rights panel was acting on a complaint from a school student

The Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has directed the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to make arrangements for bearing the expenses incurred for restoration of school walls and classrooms disfigured during the recent Assembly elections in the State. Acting on a complaint from a Class IV student from Kollam that the beautifully decorated walls of her school classroom and many other schools in the State were spoilt by sticking posters on them and a media report that poll officers in charge of school buildings had damaged school walls, a full bench of the commission on Friday directed the Director of General Education (DGE) to inspect schools where the paintings were destroyed and schools walls and classrooms disfigured, prepare a report regarding the expenses for their restoration, and submit it to the CEO for compliance.