‘Allow students to don winterwear of their choice, don’t impose uniform sweaters’: Gujarat Education minister to schools

Minister of State for Education Praful Pansheriya connected Thursday warned backstage schools not to unit children to deterioration sweaters of a definite colour successful the schoolhouse successful bid to support themselves from the cold.

“The authorities authorities is making each efforts to guarantee nary kid dies owed to acold successful the state. All the District Education Officers (DEOs) successful Gujarat person been informed that nary primary, secondary and higher secondary schoolhouse shall unit immoderate kid to deterioration a thin, low-quality sweater (not cold-proof) arsenic portion of their uniform,” Minister of State for Education Praful Pansheriya said successful an authoritative statement.

If a schoolhouse head insists that a kid wears their school’s prescribed sweater, parents should record a ailment with the territory acquisition officer’s office, helium said, adding the authorities authorities volition instrumentality strict enactment against that school.

Also, the curate assured the parents that a kid tin deterioration immoderate sweater, hat, manus gloves disposable to support themselves from cold, adding nary backstage schoolhouse oregon immoderate different instauration tin enforce immoderate regularisation successful this regard.

The Rajkot incidental took spot astatine A V Jasani Vidya Mandir successful January 2023 aft which the territory acquisition authorities directed schools to unfastened an hr aboriginal than their mean timing successful the greeting and besides let students to deterioration lukewarm apparel of their choice.

Riya Sagar fainted portion talking to her friends successful the lobby of the school. She was rushed to the nearest infirmary but was declared dead.

Riya’s parents had alleged that the schoolhouse should person allowed students to deterioration lukewarm apparel alternatively than sticking to azygous sweaters, which are not capable to bushed the cold.

Last year, Rajkot witnessed its coldest wintertime successful 8 years with the metropolis registering temperatures beneath 8 degrees for a fig of days.

The contented was besides raised by Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee with spokesperson Manish Doshi appealing to the authorities authorities to guarantee specified incidents bash not hap successful the future.