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Shimla convent school allows students to wear turban
Saturday April 28, 2012 08:21:51 PM,
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Parents fume over turban curbs in Shimla
school
Vice
President M. Hamid Ansari’s alma mater St. Edward’s School here
has refused to allow Sikh students to wear full-sized turban,
parents alleged Thursday. They were told to wear “patka” or
“under-turban” only. The school denied imposing any restrictions. »
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Shimla:
An over
one-and-half-month old controversy over wearing of full-sized
turban by Sikh students ended Saturday with a prominent boys'
school here allowing them to wear the headgear, an official said.
"The principal has given the assurance that now students can wear
the full turban," Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Naresh
Kumar Lath said.
Gurleen Singh, a Sikh student of Class 12 was verbally told by the
principal to wear only 'patka' (under-turban) in St. Edward's
school, which barred the students from wearing the full-sized
turban.
"The principal gave us in writing that the students will be
allowed to wear the full-sized turbans from Monday," Jaspal Singh
told IANS.
Parents of some Sikh students approached the local administration
Thursday on the issue after the school refused to withdraw its
March 2 order. They said the students had been wearing 'patka' in
the school since then.
Shimla Deputy Commissioner Onkar Sharma had directed school
principal John Bosco to settle the issue on priority.
St Edward's School has been a prominent boys' school in Shimla
since March 9, 1925, in the Milsington Estate. Brother J.C. Doheny
was its founder principal.
The school boasts of alumni like Vice President M. Hamid Ansari,
former cricketer Kapil Dev, former Punjab Police chief K.P.S. Gill
and union minister and former chief minister Virbhadra Singh.
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