corporal punishment

Disturbed by deaths caused by teachers hitting students, these 11th-graders in Tamil Nadu designed creative solutions to introduce positive discipline in the classroom, in lieu of punishment. The project won the ‘Bold & Audacious’ award at the ‘I CAN Awards 2015’ organised by Design for Change.

A practice that can have severe long-term repercussions, it is time to recognise the problem of corporal punishment and eliminate it once and for all.

Child abuse in various forms is still an unfortunate problem in India. However, a couple of initiatives are seeing definite success in combating this twisted practice, including the Childline 1098 helpline.