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Punjab government on Tuesday placed a ban on Kabaddi and other activities which may lead to “dangerous incidents” on school premises, following the death of a child in Khanewal earlier this month, DawnNewsTV reported.
In a notification issued by the Punjab chief minister’s monitoring force for school education department, a copy of which is available with DawnNewsTV, the provincial authority informed school administration that “all such activities and games which may cause serious incidents are totally banned”.
It further ordered that the recess in charge should keep an eye to avoid such incident in future, and said that the head of the institution should “direct all teachers to guide the students to avoid such activities”.
The notification has been issued following the death of a student at a high school in Khanewal earlier this month. The sixth-grade student reportedly died while playing Kabaddi during recess time.
The headmaster of the school has already been suspended for showing negligence.
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Apr 17, 2018 08:12pm
Kabaddi is game of Punjab how can you just ban it? We need to define the ways to play the game properly otherwise any harmless support can cause death or injury
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Apr 17, 2018 08:15pm
Then what children do in school
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Apr 17, 2018 08:21pm
Ridiculous. That was an accident. How come preventing the play of this game do any good?
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Apr 17, 2018 08:27pm
Sports activities are essential part of child development and growth.Banning Kabadi from schools is not the solution.Probably,school administration can closely supervise and monitor the sports in school.By doing that,they can avoid situations & accidents like this.
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Apr 17, 2018 08:54pm
Typical knee jerk action - no thought process and appropriate guidelines ensuring safety of children without compromising their access to sport activities.
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Apr 17, 2018 09:21pm
Ban all vehicles, they cause accidents. Ban factories, they contaminate water and environment which kills people. Likewise ban everything.
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Apr 17, 2018 09:35pm
hmm, they thought of rugby tackling in a UK school too. Tackling and scrums should be banned in school rugby, to protect children from the risk of concussion and later brain damage
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Apr 17, 2018 09:53pm
It was terrible to lose a student to a sport, but maybe with better supervision we can minimize the risk involved in such games rather than putting a blind ban altogether on recreational activities.
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Apr 17, 2018 10:10pm
what a solution
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Apr 17, 2018 10:10pm
Any sport can cause injuries and even death. You cannot ban a sport just because an accident happened. people have died playing cricket. Suspending the headmaster?
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Apr 17, 2018 10:23pm
Mad people's mad government
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Apr 17, 2018 10:42pm
Accident can happen in any game. Kabbadi is culture of Punjab, better safety measures be applied rather than banning
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Apr 17, 2018 10:45pm
Why is principal suspended before this law?
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Apr 17, 2018 11:29pm
What if someone dies while swimming? Ban swimming?
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Apr 17, 2018 11:43pm
This is what happens when you have unqualified people running a show. Banning is never a solution. in a contact sport injuries are bound to happen. Only thing that needs to be banned is the practice of banning things.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:58pm
Another solution according to Punjab government: don’t procreate
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Apr 18, 2018 12:14am
Good to ban Kabbadi in school but why the Kite Flaying that has killed innumerable children and even adults, is being allowed with only some lip service that also only when someone dies by its razor sharp strings?
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Apr 18, 2018 01:00am
@Praveen study.
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Apr 18, 2018 01:00am
@M.S.Awan they can give less homework and sports/play can be done after school.
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Apr 18, 2018 01:19am
Instead of introducing safe paly policy and training future athletes under proper supervision, Punjab govt. bans the support. What this tells is that take no responsibility and make no progress.
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Apr 18, 2018 01:27am
Games which are based on physical strength of player should be slowly replaced with more mind games. And other opportunities for physical exercise provided.
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Apr 18, 2018 02:15am
Punjab Government has banned transport on the roads to avoid accidents
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Apr 18, 2018 03:11am
If people die of food poisoning, then Punjab govt. will ban FOOD!
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Apr 18, 2018 03:12am
People have died and been severely injured in sports such as football and cricket. Should we ban them too? Accidents happen. The solution is not to restrict students' access to sport.
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Apr 18, 2018 03:23am
Pak government lacks wisdom
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Apr 18, 2018 04:00am
@Nomi Goraya ; true. They should encourage students to wear protective gear, define code of conduct, and regulate schools for conformance with the code of conduct.
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Apr 18, 2018 04:29am
Ban is not the answer. Educating student and staff and also providing a safe environment should be the way forward.
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Apr 18, 2018 04:43am
How will you produce future athletes for Pakistan?
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Apr 18, 2018 04:53am
Yes, what a good idea banning kabaddi.
Accidents also happen when children go to school, so lets ban going to school. Keep the kids safe at home
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Apr 18, 2018 05:50am
Guy hit by car died... ban all cars
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Apr 18, 2018 06:20am
In this respect Pakistan & India are the same. Here in Chennai we had an incident where a child got drowned while summing in the swimming pool of a school. They banned swimming for all schools. The drowning was an accident. As one commentator just said we don't ban cars because there are accidents right? How silly can governments get?
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Apr 18, 2018 07:11am
Kabaddi is Hindi game invented in Maharashtra.
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Apr 18, 2018 07:29am
Wow.. genius of Punjab Govt. Football, cricket, wrestling, cricket, hockey etc all may lead to serious injuries. Ban them all.
State of sports in Pakistan has already been exposed in Pakistan, Manchester st recent example is commonwealth games where we won a single gold.. now ban sport?
That kid died because of slaps, not because of kabaddi.. Grow up please.
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Apr 18, 2018 08:12am
waoow. who would tell these rotten heads that it was an accident like all the other accidents like a road accidents, would they go on banning all those activities causing an accident?
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Apr 18, 2018 01:13pm
Both external and internal powers are working against our interest. There is a traitor and may be some brainless people somewhere in chain of command.
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