When 48-year-old Anas Naina enrolled his youngest daughter to a school near his house in June this year, he said he had both her future and safety in mind. The 13-year-old joined class 8 in St Rita’s Public School in Ernakulam’s Palluruthy in the ongoing academic year. He decided to shift his daughter to a new school as the walk to and from her previous school had been through an unsafe area. A Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) accredited school run by nuns belonging to the Latin Catholic Church, St Rita’s is just 300 metres from their house.
