K Chandru committee in Tamil Nadu

Suggestions

Recommending measures to curtail caste-based discrimination in educational institutions

Disallowing students to wear coloured wristbands or any other article indicative of their caste.

Removal of caste names from attendance register

Formation of a ‘Social Justice Students Force’

Quota for students from the Scheduled Castes (SC) community in Class 11 Science divisions.

Showcasing caste

Students wear coloured T-shirts inside their school uniform, which also refer to their caste identity. Sometimes, those T-shirts will also have the image of leaders of their communities

Results of survey

by the Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) in December last year

Of the 441 schools surveyed, it was found that Dalit students were made to clean toilets and subjected to caste-based discrimination in 15 schools in Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Sivaganga, Virudhunagar, Cuddalore, Ramanathapuram, Mayiladuthurai and Coimbatore districts.

at least 28 types of discrimination in schools across the state.

students display their caste identity in at least 11 forms including wearing a wristband or taking pride in their caste or the temple village festival.

In one school in North Chennai, children were abused by their caste names and made to sit separately inside the classrooms

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