It hurts us more that the institutions were silent when the girl tweeted and tried to ask for help? The highest institutions of Odisha were silent.
Why a girl need to die? Is not this shaking the core of Netas, Babus, Police? Are not they humans? What happened to the empathy of human-beings? Everything in the country had reduced to Political benefits? Before taking any action police is doing cost-benefit analysis, how politically connected the perpetrators of the act are? Babus are reduced to Yes Sir – bootlicking simps or shall we say slaves of political class just for a promotion or a transfer or corruption money. Value of position any officer is just a few bundle of notes. This writeup might sound critical but in reality common masses are going through this pain day in and out. Once someone is dead then these vultures will start their acting as the best sincerest of the folks, they will show themselves as saints, they will announce some lakhs from the exchequer instead of trying to solve the systemic rots, they wont create mechanisms, colleges will have one or two seminar, call a speaker forcefully recommended by a Babu/Neta(that person will be known to the Babu/Neta in a quid pro quo arrangement or might be the relative, a son, a daughter or a daughter in law of the Babu/Neta who will make money as a part of the tragedy), its all business for them to shine on during a tragedy. But, in reality its the parents who is gonna suffer their whole lives.
We have tweeted multiple times that sexual favors are being asked by professors and doctorates students are being treated as slaves, there are no audit mechanisms to rate a professor and there are no benchmark to gauge the transparency, authenticity and competency of a professor. They become indispensable till they retire making them more powerful. Not only education sector, this would be prevalent in every sector, lack of strong institutional mechanisms are forcing people to remain silent. Having a toll free helpline won’t work if you know your boss is very powerful and connected and the burden to prove is on you.
#Odisha as a state does not have a mechanism or system in place for sexual harassment at schools/colleges/institutions. If at all anything is there, that’s broken and not working. Providing a conducive environment is the duty of Government, Law & Order department and Judiciary. The lack of these points towards a broken system and lack of intent, Politics irrespective of party whether BJP, BJD, Congress had ruined all these systems so much that people chose suicide over institutions. High time Judges of the High Court and Supreme Courts decide on Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) at Government spaces.
One of our followers had written this in 2015, its been 10 years and nothing had changed in the colleges of #Odisha, daily 1000s of Roses are getting tormented yet no concrete action, Police can’t stand upto Netas, Babus are Yes Sir and Netas only does Politics, they dont see problems, they only see political opportunity, high time college politics need to be freed from main stream politics, ruining the lives of many brilliant minds. When all this would be stopped? When will Police/Babus/Netas act on the merit of the situation irrespective of thinking:
1) Will I get any political mileage?
2) What’s in it for me?
3) Will it hurt the ruling/opposition party?
4) Is the perpetrator linked to a Neta/Babu or a Celebrity or filthy rich?
5) How much it’s gonna cost?
