Kalyan (District Thana) – Kalyan’s famous, K. C. Gandhi English School has prohibited the students practicing basic practices followed by Hindu children, like applying Kumkum on their forehead, wearing bangles, or wearing a rakhi or tying a sacred thread on the wrist etc. This decision of the school administration has angered the parents. The Education Department of Kalyan Dombivli Municipality has asked the School Administration for an explanation.
Threat of physically harming on wearing a tilak
The parents said that if a student wore a tilak on his forehead in school, then it was forcibly wiped off his forehead. The parents claimed that in some cases the students were also physically beaten. The parents allege that the teachers have been threatening students that if they come to school wearing a tilak they will be punished. (If this claim is true, then it extremely exasperating and wrong. If the teachers only speak in this manner to a Muslim student about removing the hijab if they come to school wearing one, then there would be violence with slogans of ‘Sar tan se juda’. This a known fact. – Editor)
Complaint made to the Municipal Education Department
Complaint has been made against the school’s decision of not allowing the Hindu students to practice the tenets of their religion; to Rupesh Bhoir the leader of Thackeray group of the Kalyan Vidhansabha Association. Bhoir has filed this complaint to the Education Department of the Kalyan-Dombivali Municipality.
Source : Sanatan Prabhat
