The city’s Car Street-based Government First Grade College, the premier government college in Dakshina Kannada, which has been closed since March 5 following a controversy over the hijab issue, will resume offline classes on Wednesday.
College Principal Rajshekhar Hebbar told Hindu That postgraduate classes will also resume on Wednesday.
The internal examinations for undergraduate students, which were postponed on March 5, will resume on Thursday, he said and added that the college has been conducting online classes for all students for over a week.
Controversy erupted in the college with about 2,000 students on March 3 and March 4, when two groups of students opposed each other over a dress code issue.
While a section of students demanded that girls wearing hijab should not be allowed to enter classes and appear for internal examinations, some girls pressed that they should be allowed to do so.
This resulted in students registering complaints and complaints with the police, who registered three cases related to students misbehaving with fellow students.
Meanwhile, following the final verdict of the Karnataka High Court, Hiba Shaikh, a second year science student of the college, who had demanded that she be allowed to wear hijab in class and against whom a case has been registered, tweeted on Tuesday : “What does ‘uniform a reasonable restriction to exercise fundamental rights’ mean? My constitution has given me the right to practice my religion. How can the court not consider the hijab an integral part of Islam? My fight for the hijab will continue. There is no turning back.”
Ms. Sheikh has also filed a complaint against four students of her college and 15 others.
Ullal PU College
Bharat Pre University College in Mastikatte, Ullal, also suspended physical classes on February 25 due to a dress code dispute.
College principal Kalavati P. told Hindu That the preliminary examinations for the students of the pre-second year university will be conducted from March 17 to March 25. The annual examinations for the first year students will start from March 29. Till then, no classes will resume as the college has already declared study leave. By the time the controversy broke out in the college he had completed all the lessons, he said and added that the management has decided to reopen the college to conduct the exams.