Teachers at the Government Urdu Secondary School in a village in Kaup taluk of Udupi district were taken aback when some students turned on February 15 wearing a hijab (head scarf), as they had not been wearing it earlier.
A few girls among the 30-odd students from Classes 8 to 10 of the school in Fakiranakatte of Mallaru village, who were earlier coming to the school wearing a scarf around their neck, turned up on February 15 with a hijab covering their head, according to Govinda Madiwal, Deputy Director, Department of Public Instruction, Udupi.
