Lakshadweep administration ends system of holidays on Fridays for schools in islands
The Hindu
P.P. Abbas, Vice President cum Counsellor of the Lakshadweep District Panchayat, wrote a letter requesting to reconsider the order of the Education Department.
Fridays will no longer be weekly holidays for school students in Muslim dominated Lakshadweep.
The Lakshadweep Education Department has brought out a new calendar declaring Fridays working days and all Sundays holidays for schools in the islands, ending the decades old privilege of the students for having Fridays as holidays in the islands on religious grounds.
Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal said ever since the schools were opened in islands for providing education for students some six decades ago, Friday was holiday and Saturday up to half day was working day.
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