Hunger strike girls end protest in India
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MORE than 80 girls who went on a hunger strike in northern India to protest the harassment they faced on the way to school ended the protest yesterday.
Some students were hospitalized because of the hunger strike.
The teenagers, from grades nine and 10, stopped the strike after eight days, when the education minister of northern Haryana state said he would add two grades to their school so they would not have to go to travel to another village to complete their high school education.
For grades 11 and 12, the girls would have had to travel 3 kilometers to another school. They had said they would drop out, as the extra distance would mean more harassment from young men on motorbikes who made sexual advances as they walked or cycled to school everyday.
“A principal has been appointed, and admissions will start for the 2017-18 session on Thursday itself for the new classes,” Haryana education minister Ram Bilas Sharma said.
A survey by nonprofit Save the Children found the dropout rate for girls is as high as 70 percent because of poverty, lack of toilet facilities and sexual violence.
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