The students in uniforms being found increasingly in the cinemas watching movies while skipping classes, members of Rashtriya Jan Sahay Dal, a social organisation, staged a demonstration at a cinema in Rajpur on Monday, demanding the students who were watching film while donning school uniforms be asked to come out.
later, police came and the students were handed over to their parents.
The protesters said that the cinema operators should stop selling tickets to the students in uniform.
Protesters said that the students being the future of the country, the trend of them playing truant with the classes and thronging cinemas to watch movies is a matter of concern for all.
One of them said that they had acted on the complaint of the locals that the students in uniforms were coming to watch movies almost daily. Subsequent to the stir, the students wearing school uniforms were taken out of the cinema. As the police came they informed their parents.
later, the students were handed over to their parents.
The protesters insisted that the hall operators should make it a rule to stop selling tickets to the students in uniform.
Devbhoomi Jan Seva Samiti president Rajendra Singh Negi, secretary of the same outfit, Praveen Kalura, vice president and ex-general secretary of DAV (PG) College students’ union Sachin Thapliyal were among those who led the demonstration.
Negi said he had written to Human Rights Commission member Hemlata Dhaundiyal over the same issue following which Dhaundiyal had directed the DM to take measures through the education officer and the entertainment officer to stop the practice that is leaving adverse impact on the future of the students.