The row over allowing hijab in the classroom has impacted one more college in the coastal belt with the Government First Grade College at Car Street in Mangaluru city declaring holiday on March 5 after some hijab-clad girls insisted that they be allowed to appear for the internal examinations while some students opposed it.
Consequently the college, a lead college among the government colleges in Dakshina Kannada having about 2,000 students, postponed its ongoing internal examinations that had commenced from March 3.
According to the college principal Rajashekar Hebbar, the holiday was declared and the internal examinations postponed indefinitely till the tension eases.
