Lagatar24 Desk
Ranchi, July 14: Forty schools in the Jamtara district pledged in writing on Wednesday to switch back to using Sundays as their weekly off day instead of Fridays.
According to District Education Officer Abhay Shankar, these primary schools were compelled to switch their weekly off days from Sundays to Fridays during the lockdown, as reported by PTI.
The DEO announced the dissolution of the district’s School Management Body and the impending formation of a new committee. Congress, meanwhile, called for strong punishment of those responsible for pressuring schools to alter their weekly off schedule.
“As per information, some Muslim youths forced the authorities of two-three schools to change the rule of weekly off from existing Sunday to Friday, claiming that Muslim students in these schools were more than 70 per cent,” senior Congress leader Ajoy Kumar said in a letter to Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
“It was then followed by over 50 schools in Jamtara district,” he added.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) issued a notice to the Garhwa district following allegations that some Islamic radicals pressured the headmaster of a government-run school to change a traditional prayer song from “Daya Kar Dan Vidya (Please impart knowledge)” to “Tu Hi Ram Hai Tu Rahim Hai (You are Ram and you are Rahim)” a few days ago.
Additionally, it was claimed that in a middle school at Korwadih village in Sadar block, students were being stopped from holding hands during prayers.
