Bangalore: Karnataka Minister of Primary and Secondary Education BC Nagesh stated that the government has given an option to the teachers who are insisting on wearing hijab while performing their exam duty.
Speaking to news agency ANI, the minister said, “We have made uniforms compulsory. It is the moral duty of any teacher to see that they also come how children come to the school. In many schools, children questioned us that we are prohibiting the students from putting hijab but the teachers are putting hijab. So we requested them not to do that because they will be in front of the students in the classroom.”
Nagesh said that most teachers have accepted the appeal of not wearing hijab inside the classroom, made by the government. He said that few teachers wanted hijab, and there is no pressure on them. He said, “Most of them accepted and are doing the duties without hijab. There were a few teachers who wanted a hijab. We have not forced them. We gave them the option they may come to the exam duty or they may not.”
Several students have skipped classes, and are not giving exams, following the Karnataka High Court’s decision in February to ban the hijab in educational institutes, considering it a non-essential practice in Islam.
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