Gujarat issues fresh instructions for schools requiring most outside visitors to get prior written permission from the principal before entering campuses, including rules covering recording and interviews involving students and teachers. The guidance also requires visitor records and allows principals to restrict entry on security grounds.
The measures emphasise limiting unauthorised photography, videography and the collection or sharing of students’ personal information. Outlets describe that schools should prevent activities that could compromise students’ safety, dignity or privacy, and that violations may trigger legal or enforcement action, including reporting to authorities.
While all coverage points to the same circular and core requirements, the outlets vary in emphasis. NDTV foregrounds the legal risk, linking rule-breaking to child sexual abuse law, while Times of India and Free Press Journal lead more directly with the privacy and access-control aspects, and describe in greater detail what schools must record and what kinds of media activities are barred without permission.
