Chandigarh, May 9 -- The Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) has directed the state chief secretary to submit a time-bound action plan to ensure proper infrastructure in government schools of Nuh district, after a government primary school was found violating children's right to education by functioning from a cattle shed. The HHRC noted that such functioning also violated children's right to health and right to live with dignity.

Taking suo motu cognisance of a news report that highlighted how a government primary school has been functioning in a cow shed in Nuh district and how students are studying in an unsafe room, the HHRC stated that the conditions described in the reports are grave.

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