KOPPAL: Two days after a 13-year-old boy drowned during a school trip in an open well in Bhatkal, in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada, the education department suspended six teachers of Gandaal govt higher primary school charging them with negligence.
Sources said the school took 100 students and 11 teachers on a tour to coastal Karnataka in two buses. On Friday night, when the buses pulled over for a short stop, Nirupadi Biradar, a Class 8 student, got down to answer nature’s call and accidentally slipped into an open well.
Srishail Biradar, deputy director of public instruction, suspended headmaster Hanumesh Bellad, assistant teachers Shivakumar Avasangarad, Nagaraj Shettar, Amaresh Ballari, Iramma Badiger and Padmavati Pawar on Saturday. The state govt has given Rs 5 lakh compensation to family of the deceased. On Sunday, district BJP unit president Naveen Kumar Gulagannavar met the boy’s family to offer condolences.