On the lines of Karnataka, girl students have been banned from wearing burqa in the classroom of a school in Senbagh subdistrict of Noakhali, Bangladesh. After this order of the school, protests are taking place at various places. According to a BBC report, a notice on the school side said that girls cannot cover their faces after entering the class. However, later the management withdrew this notice.
It has been more than two weeks since this poopy incident. Despite this, people are protesting. People are criticizing it with poster-banners in their hands. The BBC has quoted local people in its report as saying that the matter has been raised because of the election of the school management committee. However, the school administration maintains that the notice has been misinterpreted. The notice had to be withdrawn due to confusion.
Let us tell you that by forming a human chain outside the school, he expressed his anger by protesting. At the same time, a local police officer said that there were several incidents of boys coming to the girls’ class wearing burqa. Keeping in mind the safety of the girls, the school administration took such a decision. The school management issued a directive not to cover the face after entering the classroom. He said that there was nothing in the notice about not wearing a burqa or a ban on it. He said that sometimes even girls who did not study in school used to come to the class.
In its report, the BBC quoted the school management as saying that the boys had made a den in a market near the school. The market committee took action against it. After this, those boys made the school their haunt. Keeping in mind the safety of the girls, we issued an order not to cover the face inside the classroom.
On this entire episode, writer Taslima Nasreen said, “The headmaster of Sher-e-Bangla High School in Noakhali, Mozammel Hussain, banned the burqa in classes. Therefore, the people pro-burqa opposed the decision of the headmaster. The headmaster said that he banned the burqa in the classrooms because unknown men and outsiders could wear the burqa to enter the classes.