On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:27:56 -0700 Sandeep Heble wrote: <<<1. All our rallies were organised in a perfectly legal manner including the Student Rallies, with permissions legally obtained from School managements and other authorities like the Collector, Police, etc. Parents were also intimated and due consent was obtained. 2. I do not know which planet Jose and Dr Falcao have been living on. In Goa as in the rest of India, Students have been participating in
rallies all the time, whether State supported rallies and parades like the Independence Day or Republic Day or other rallies organised for social causes like environment, terrorism, equality, etc…>>> COMMENT : This further clarifies that “perfectly legal manner” is not clearly understood. We are talking in respect to the authority anyone can assume over children or students to take them to the streets during school hours when they should be in school. During those hours the child is in the care of the school or College or Institution. And if in those hours it has transferred its responsibility over the child to someone else, it has flouted the role of ‘A CARE GIVER” under the Goa Children’s Act 2003. Secondly. Legal definition of Child exploitation refers to the use of children for someone else’s advantage, gratification or profit often resulting in unjust, cruel and harmful treatment of the child, that are to the detrimental to the child’s mental health, education and moral development. And lastly, yes, Jose and I do not know that there is an Indian planet where corruption is the order of the day. So why fight corruption? If irresponsible and illegal methods are followed on the rest of that planet, why not follow it in Goa too, that too to make a show against the corrupt norm by making a show of numbers which otherwise without students would have been just a handful? Political mentality this. Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.