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Muslim institutions to establish in Karnataka regions to allow hijabs

Up to 13 Muslim educational institutions have applied for approval from the Karnataka government to open Pre-University Colleges in Dakshina Kannada, allowing Muslim female students to wear the hijab inside of classrooms.

As reported in the education department, the applications for all the PU colleges have been granted and are in ready to implement mode. The area where the PU is preferably set to take place is Dakshina Kannada. Ironically it is the same place where the “hijab” arguments began.

According to the High Court’s judgement, there shall be no intentional display of any religion or community, keeping in mind the clothing of the children at the universities but some percentage of Muslim girls have been against the favour as they consider hijab as a religious part which according to them is unavoidable. Some of the students have discontinued their education after not being allowed to wear hijab into classrooms.

The College Development Committees are given authority to create rules in this regard by the government directive. There have been 14 applications for the opening of PU Colleges in the Dakshina Kannada district, 13 of which came from Muslim academic institutions.

Sources verified that only 1 Muslim institute has received approval to launch PU College thus far. Muslims in the area demanded that separate courses be opened for their female students so that they could wear the hijab.