Mangaluru, Mar 1: At least two Muslim girls were allegedly forced to remove their headscarves before entering the examination hall to appear for the II PU examination on Thursday at city based private college. The II PU exams commenced on Thursday across the state.
One of the victims, a science stream student from the city based St Aloysius College, had entered her examination centre at Canara College in the morning with headscarf.
The invigilator admonished her and ordered to remove her headscarf before entering the hall. After a few minutes for fruitless efforts to convince the invigilator, the girl had to remove the headscarf and write exam.
KR Thimmaiah, Deputy Director of Pre-University (DDPU) Board for Dakshina Kannada, said that he visited the Canara College on hearing the news and took the principal to task for not allowing the Muslim girls to wear headscarves inside the examination hall. He assured that such incidents would not be recurred.
The girl’s brother was quoted by local media as saying that the invigilator forced at least two Muslim girls to remove headscarves.
“Today’s paper was biology. My sister told me that she and another girl were asked by the invigilator to remove headscarves before writing exam. My sister then contacted her lecturer in Aloysius College over phone. Her lecturer reportedly contacted the Canara College principal but in vain. Then he requested my sister not to skip the exam and follow the rules imposed by Canara College at least on first day. She had to do the same,” he said.
Meanwhile Campus Front of India (CFI) has condemned the move of Canara College. In a statement, CFI district president Imran said that necessary actions should be taken against education institutions that snatch the religious freedom from the students in the pretext of dress code.
Welcoming the move Dr Arathi Krishna told coastaldigst.com that Indians stranded in any foreign country can utilize this facility. "Initially, I was approached by Mr Zakaria and Mr Sheik who wanted chartered flights to help their employees fly back to India. I asked them to write to the Indian Ambassador in Saudi Araia Mr Ausaf Sayeed. Then I requested the ambassador to forward the request to Joint Secretary Dr Nagendra Prasad, who is in charge of gulf division in the Ministry of External Affairs, and then to Secretary on charge of Gulf and then I requested Secretary of Economic Relations Mr T S Tirumurti who was also in charge of Gulf to follow this up," she said.
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Absolutely I am agreed the comments with Mr. Suldan Jeddah.
NRI tycoons of Mangalorean should be concentrating on establishing educational institutions with hostel facility especially for women with their dress code. Really it was needed of hours.
The Principal there is a sanghi. Although to be fair to her, she doesn't tolerate anything. A few years ago, she had irritated a student holding the Ayyappa vrata. Looks like she is trying to impose RSS discipline in the college.
On the first place, action against such culprit institutions is need of the time for not circulating norms of dress code of its institution on time, and then snatching the relegious freedom.
This head scarfs .... Burqha has been taken for GRANTED by this students...... you can see all the so called religious Girls.... In Movie theatre.... coffeeshop ..... restaurants... parks.... hotels ..... malls..... Romancing and dating while hiding their Identety ...... 60% of the Restaurants.. coffee shops and parks with this people..... Parents or family memebrs wont even aware of their children doing all this ...
My humble request to NRI tycoons including CD boss to establish more and more educational institutions in Mangaluru and allow people of different faiths to follow their dress code. This is need of the hour. Kindly stop dumping money to gutter by organizing cricket tourneys.
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