BangaloreMuslim leaders in Karnataka met Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday, amid the ongoing controversy over the ban on hijab in educational institutions in the state. Speaking to news agency ANI, Congress leader UT Khadar said that the delegation requested the Chief Minister to distribute the funds equally for the welfare of all minority communities. Khadar said, “The budget for education and empowerment programs of the Minorities Welfare Department has been cut in the last two years. The students are suffering.
Meanwhile, some students refused to appear in their class 10 pre examinations. Students were asked to remove the hijab before entering the school. The incident is from Karnataka Public School in Shivamogga. Hina Kausar, a student of the school told ANI, ‘I was asked to remove my hijab before entering the school. I can’t do that, so I decided not to appear in the exam.’
In another incident, the parents of a student of a government Urdu school in Udupi’s Pakirnagar area said that they would not send their daughter to school due to the sudden ban on hijab. The parents said, ‘After the ban on hijab in school, we are not sending her to school. Till now, many of our family members have studied in this school wearing hijab. Why is there a sudden change in the rules?’
Tehsildar of Udupi district said that a meeting of parents and teachers is going on regarding this issue. Let us inform that Section 144 has been imposed in some sensitive areas like Udupi, Bengaluru and Dakshina Kannada and high schools have been reopened in the southern state.
first published:Feb. 15, 2022, 2:10 pm
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