Hijab Row: Puducherry Education Dept To Formulate Dress Code For School Students

The Puducherry Lt Governor Tamilisai Sounddarajan and Director of School Education said that a dress code will likely be brought to bring uniformity among the school students.

Puducherry Lt Governor Tamilisai Sounddarajan | Credit: Twitter

Chennai: The Puducherry Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundarajan said that the Puducherry Education Department will decide on formulating a uniform dress code in schools of the union territory on Wednesday. 

Confirming the same, the Director of School Education PR Rudra Goud also said that their department is working on a dress code to bring uniformity among the school students, according to a report on The New Indian Express. 

The dress code being formulated by the department will have guidelines on the uniform and everything that's permitted within the school campus. Once the government gives the nod, the dress code will be accepted, he added. 

The Puducherry government revealed their decision after a headmaster of a government school allegedly objected to a Muslim student wearing a hijab in Puducherry. 

A Class 9 girl in Government High School in Ariyankuppam came to the school wearing the hijab but the headmaster insisted her to remove her hijab once she reached the school on February 4. 

The girl has been wearing a hijab ever since she joined Class 1 in the same school. However, the issue came up only recently, as per the girl’s father.

Initially, the row over hijab started in Karnataka on January 1, 2022, after Muslim students attended Udupi Women's Pre-University college wearing a hijab. After the incidents, many students in Karnataka started coming to the school wearing hijab and saffron shawls. 

On January 26, the Karnataka government set up a committee to solve the issue but insisted all the girl students to follow the uniform rule until the recommendations of the committee are released.