On Camera, Karnataka College Students’ ‘Allow Us In With Hijab’ Plea

Bengaluru:

College students of a Karnataka faculty weren’t allowed to attend lessons sporting a Hijab, the second such controversy within the state this yr.

In a video, which goes viral on social media, college students of a pre-university faculty in Karnataka’s Kundapur coastal city of Udupi district will be seen pleading earlier than the principal. The scholars request the school principal to permit them to attend lessons sporting the hijab.

Additionally they inform him that their exams are simply two months away, and why is the school creating a problem on sporting the hijab now.

Till now, the norm within the state was that college students had been allowed to put on the hijab in faculty, however they’d take away it contained in the classroom.

Talking to reporters within the district, S Angara, Udupi district-in-charge minister stated {that a} established order ought to be maintained till an additional choice is taken.

“I’ll maintain discussions with the district administration. It is tough to draft separate guidelines for each faculty. But when that is been achieved, the federal government will take an knowledgeable choice. However I’ve a request. I’ve known as for a gathering with the stakeholders,” Mr Angara stated.

The problem began on Wednesday when some women attended faculty sporting the hijab. This prompted 100 boys to put on saffron shawls.

The faculty administration held a gathering with Kundapur MLA Haladi Srinivas Shetty and arrived on a call that college students should keep on with a uniform rule. Nevertheless, the feminine college students who stay agency on their stand had been barred from coming into the school.

That is second such incident that is been reported from Karnataka within the final two months.

The primary occasion occurred on the PU Ladies School in Udupi a month in the past, the place the scholars are nonetheless combating to be allowed to sit down in a category sporting a hijab.

One of many college students has moved the Excessive Courtroom with a prayer to permit the correct to put on a hijab, or scarf, contained in the classroom.