Teachers and Students in schools, colleges and universities need to implement uniforms!

In Karnataka, two government art colleges have been denied permission by the college administration to allow students of a particular religion to wear clothing that symbolises their religion. Following that, another group of students have been wearing clothes that represent their religious affiliation.

School, college and university campuses are places where personal discipline, patriotic and humanistic cultures are nurtured. Religion and worship are concerned with individual rights. Identifying religious symbols at their family and community events is usually different. But only single identities should be highlighted in school, college and university. No signs of caste, ethnic, religious or linguistic differences should be allowed in the impressionable seasons in their lives.

Caste, religion and ethnic differences are displayed within school, college and university campuses in order to create divisions by exploiting the prevailing democratic sentiments in India.

The last few years in the South have been marked by the identification of castes in schools and colleges, starting with the marks on the forehead and the tying of threads on the hands, which has led to conflicts among students and caused deaths. We have therefore already emphasised that no other aspect should be allowed within the school and college campuses other than the single identity of the student.

Now, such an event is taking place at Government Pre University in Kundapura, Udupi district in Karnataka and also in a Government Women’s College. Such actions should be nipped in the bud in collaboration with the Central Human Resource Development Department and the respective State Department of Education to implement uniforms among teachers and students across India. This would not allow any identification that reflects caste, creed, ethnicity or colour in any school, college, university or other educational institution to anticipate the dangers of new conflicts in the campus. I urge the Central Government’s Department of Human Resource Development to take appropriate action to stop this.

Dr. K. Krishnasamy, MD, Ex.MLA,
Founder & President,
Puthiya Tamilagam Party,