GOVT SCHOOL DIVIDES STUDENTS 'BASED ON CASTE, RELIGION'; MUSLIMS & DALITS MADE TO 'SIT SEPARATELY'

In a shocking incident, a school in Bihar’s Vaishali district has been accused of segregating students based on their caste and religion. Following these revelations, the state government has ordered an inquiry into the matter.

The school in question is Lalganj High School in Vaishali, where the students belonging to the Muslim community, Dalits, OBCs and ‘upper caste’ were made to sit in different sections and classes.

The government-run school had divided the students into different sections and classes based on their religion and caste, Bihar Education Minister Krishnandan Prasad Verma was quoted as saying by Times Now. Ordering a probe into the matter, the minister assured that the guilty would be punished.

"It is unfortunate and wrong if such a situation exists in any school. It is against the law to divide students on the basis of their religion and caste in any school,” he reportedly said. 

Meanwhile, school principal Meena Kumari tried to justify the practice, claiming that the students were segregated in order to facilitate smoother functioning and implementation of various welfare schemes by the government. She also claimed that there were other classes in the school in which students of different faiths and castes sat together.