Gadag. The Karnataka Education Department has suspended 7 teachers, including two superintendents, for allowing girl students wearing hijab to take the SSLC (Class 10) examination in Gadag district.
The department has also ordered an inquiry against the suspended employees. These teachers and superintendents called Gadag’s C.S. The girls who came to the Patil examination center wearing hijab on Monday were allowed to appear in the examination.
Meanwhile, Sriram Sene Kalaburgi District President, Ninganna Gowda Patil has filed a complaint with the Block Education Officer (BEO) of Kalaburgi, seeking suspension of Mohammad Ali, a teacher of Ijeri Urdu School in Jevargi taluk, for allowing him to write the examination wearing a hijab. has been demanded. He has warned in his complaint that if action is not taken, then there will be a sit-in demonstration.
After a special division bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed petitions seeking permission to attend classes wearing hijab, the government has banned wearing of hijab while writing exams in the state.
Most of the girl students from minority community are appearing in the examination in the uniform prescribed by the school and without hijab. A separate room is being arranged for Muslim girl students to take off their burqa or hijab and then appear in the examination.
Earlier on Monday, a female invigilator, who was supervising the examination wearing a hijab in Rajajinagar, Bangalore, was suspended for refusing to remove the hijab. When asked to remove the hijab, many girl students remained absent and went back from the examination centres.
8,73,846 students have enrolled for SSLC exam in this academic year, out of which 4,52,732 are boys and 4,21,110 are girls. Four third gender students and 5,307 differently-abled children are also taking the exam. More than 20,000 students were absent on the first day of SSLC exam. The SSLC (Class 10) exams have started from March 28 and will be conducted till April 11.
—AnyTV News
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