Puttur: Vivekananda Vidyavardhaka Sangha comes up with new ‘bangle, bindi’ rules
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Print Puttur, 08 Aug 2012: Even as the head scarf row is still fresh in public minds, reports state that the management of the Vivekananda Vidyavardhaka Sangha (VVS), Puttur, which runs several institutions, has enforced a new rule making it mandatory for its women students, women teachers and staff to wear bangles and sport bindi on campus.
The VVS board is learnt to have circulated a notice directing the heads of its institutions to ensure the decision is enforced strictly and are aimed at ensuring discipline in the campus. Though uniform rules are mandatory in the VVS institutions, bangles and tilaks are an addition.
Already, the decision has invited criticism. Federation of Rationalists Associations of India President Narendra Nayak has strongly condemned the rule and added this may even lead to Christian institutions enforcing their own rules.
Shameera Jahan, deputy coordinator of the women’s wing of Jamaate-Islami Hind, has described the new rule as an attack on religious freedom.
| Comments on this Article | |
| Philip Mudartha, Qatar | Thu, August-9-2012, 9:48 |
| I welcome framing of such rule to define the dress code within VVS campus. This will result in a number of Christian aspirants to seek seats in institutions run by the community. This burden on our institutions is required in order to fully utilize the 50% permissible towards them and reduce seats allotted/sold to others outbidding. I pray our institutions react with framing appropriate rules to include symbols of the community, head scarf in honor of Mother Mary and and an umbrella in honor of Rani Abbakka. | |
| Gregory Fernandes, Pernankila/Bangalore | Thu, August-9-2012, 5:17 |
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