BENGALURU/UDUPI: Coming to school or college in hijab or headscarf is tantamount to indiscipline, said state primary and secondary education minister B C Nagesh on Thursday.
"Uniforms were introduced in 1985 to bring a sense of oneness among students and to ensure educational institutions don't become a place to practice one's religion," Nagesh told TOI, reacting to the headscarf row at the Government PU College for girls in Udupi district. Six students of the college have been staging a protest since December-end for not being allowed to sit in class with the hijab.
