"Having security forces occupy school grounds puts children and their education at unnecessary risk," Sheppard said. "Now this practice is putting India's reputation on the world stage at risk." A Human Rights Watch report in 2009, "Sabotaged Schooling
," observed that “security forces—both police and paramilitary police—occupy school buildings as bases for anti-Maoist operations, sometimes only for a few days, but often for periods lasting several months and even years ... with students trying to carry on their studies in the remaining space, often under distracting and even frightening circumstances”. “Girls”, the report continues, “are especially likely to drop out following a partial occupation of a school because of harassment, or perceived harassment, by the security forces”. This aspect of the atrocity on children by the state has been justly and widely highlighted by the rights groups in India.