Girls in hijab will be counselled, says Vice-Chancellor
The Hindu
‘They will be convinced of the need to remove scarf while attending classes’
A day after students of the University College here went on a protest against the college allowing Muslim girls to wear hijab in classrooms, Mangalore University said on Friday that students in hijab will be counselled and convinced of the need to return to classes without scarf.
Speaking to media persons after holding a meeting in the college, which is owned and managed by the university, Vice-Chancellor P.S. Yadapadithaya said that the university will not allow students to wear hijab in all its six constituent colleges that are owned and managed by the university.
“If students refuse to attend classes even after counselling, the college will issue them transfer certificates if they wish to join any other institution”P.S. Yadapadithaya,Vice-Chancellor, Mangalore University
It is as per the recent verdict of the High Court of Karnataka and the subsequent decision taken by the Syndicate, which is the highest decision-making body of the university, on May 16. The Syndicate has decided that students should not be allowed to wear scarf in classrooms of the university’s constituent colleges.
The verdict of the court is binding on the university and its constituent colleges, the Vice-Chancellor said.
“We can bend or stretch the law. But we cannot break it,” he said and added that if the students refused to attend classes even after counselling, the college will issue them transfer certificates if they wished to join any other institution.
The Vice-Chancellor said that hijab will not be allowed in library and canteen as well. Students will, after entering the college premises, have to remove the head scarf in the rest room meant for them.
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