Karnataka revokes 2022 order, allows hijab in schools, colleges

Karnataka has withdrawn its 2022 dress code order, now permitting students to wear religious symbols like hijabs, turbans, and sacred threads alongside uniforms. This new policy, effective from the next academic year for classes 1-12, aims to balance institutional discipline with individual freedoms. The BJP criticized the move as "vote-bank appeasement."

By TNN

Karnataka allows students to wear faith-based symbols in schools

The Congress government in Karnataka on Wednesday issued orders allowing students to wear limited traditional and faith-based attire such as hijabs and turbans along with their prescribed uniforms in schools and pre-university colleges across the state.

Karnataka Revokes 2022 Order, Allows Hijab, Sacred Thread In Schools

The fresh order formally revokes the earlier directive that had required strict adherence to uniforms without religious symbols, a move that had sparked a political flashpoint centred on the wearing of the hijab.