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Ban skirts as school uniform: BJP legislator
Saturday December 29, 2012 01:56:25 PM,
IANS
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Jaipur:
A BJP legislator in Rajasthan wants the
state government to prohibit private schools from making girls
wear skirts as uniform, citing it as the reason behind increased
cases of sexual harassment.
Banwari Lal Singhal, in his letter to the chief secretary,
demanded that girl students be made to wear salwar suits or shirts
and trousers as uniform to reduce chances of their being subjected
to lewd comments or harassment.
Singhal is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Alwar
city constituency, around 150 km from here.
"Girls either walk to school or wait for school buses at various
points in Alwar. That is when they face lewd comments from
mischievous elements," Singhal said.
He argued that most private schools in the city had skirts as part
of the uniform.
"It should be prohibited keeping in view the rise of social crimes
against women. The school should have pant-shirts or salwar suits
as uniforms for girl students," Singhal said in the letter.
He said the proposed school uniform would save the students from
extreme weather conditions too.
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