Bangalore, Jan 12: Stating that complete body-covering garment is often misused by girl students in schools and colleges, a Christian panel has strongly defended the ban imposed by several missionary-run educational institutions in Karnataka on wearing the burkha on campus.
Replying to queries of media persons at a press conference called to announce a daylong seminar on 'combating saffronisation of education and suppression of subaltern voices', Sr. M. Genevieve, secretary of the Karnataka Regional Commission for Education (KRCE), said that burkha was often misused for copying in exams and for other immoral activities.
Defending the ban imposed by several missionary-run educational institutions in Karnataka on wearing the burkha on campus, Sr. M. Genevieve, secretary of the Karnataka Regional Commission for Education (KRCE), has said that the garment is “often misused by girl students”.
“Girl students often use burkha for copying in exams. They hide scraps of paper in the folds of such garment”, she said.
She went on to claim that not just Muslims, but girls of other religions too have started wearing the burkha as a sort of cover for immoral activities. “Few girls belonging to other communities wear burkha to go out with their boyfriends,” she added.
When it was pointed out that saffron groups too have tried to impose a ban on the garment, particularly in the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, she said that the ban in Christian missionary institutions was applicable only on the campus.
“In a girls' college like Mount Carmel College, what is the need to wear the burkha? There are hardly one or two men there,” she said.
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