Rajasthan government challenges school's holi ban, plans to write to CBSE

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A Jaipur school's decision to ban Holi celebrations has led to a confrontation with the Rajasthan government. The Sophia School cited ongoing exams as the reason for prohibiting celebrations.

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00:00Showdown again that has got to do with Holi celebrations in a school in Jaipur

00:04Rajasthan government versus Sophia school on Holi Sophia schools anti Holi color dictard

00:10Jaipur school bans gulal sites exams Rajasthan government to move CBSE

00:16Lodge a complaint move in fact saying that the government says this is in fact a communal order by the school

00:24It's not going to be allowed is what is being said

00:31Getting you details of the Holi showdown in the school in Jaipur

00:35Rajasthan government versus Sophia school on Holi the schools anti Holi color

00:40Dictat the school bans gulal says there are exams ongoing and that colors can't be played on Holi day

00:47Rajasthan government has challenged this matter and

00:50Lodged a complaint the government says this is indeed a communal order by the Sophie school in Jaipur

01:00The school is in fact cited reason saying that they can't be in fact allowing Holi given that exams are underway

01:08however, the government is

01:10Challenging all of this saying that this is not done. This is a

01:14Communal order by the school in question says the Rajasthan government

01:20The school is facing action for banning Holi celebrations with the Rajasthan government itself

01:26challenging this matter

01:28Saying that this is a communal diktat from the school

01:36The prohibited Holi celebrations telling students about

01:41exams in

01:42In the school, but the government has not taken kindly to this

01:46I'm going to go straight across to my colleague Dev Ankur getting asked more details

01:50They give us a sense of how the government is planning to now go about this or challenge this order

01:56Well Sneha this school the Sophia school in Jaipur

02:00it falls under the aegis of the Central Board of Secondary Education the CBSE and

02:06Madan Dilawar who has been known to make

02:09Certain comments in the past as well as the education minister in Rajasthan and he has claimed that

02:15This is not something which has been taken

02:18and that the government intends or the education department intends to write to the Central Board of

02:25Secondary Education

02:27Asking why should the the school's?

02:30registration be not cancelled and that is the you know kind of

02:36Level that the matter has reached

02:38The education department has claimed that this is something which is not right the school students being asked not to bring gulal on Holi

02:46Is something which is not acceptable whereas the school?

02:49Sneha claims that the students were told not to bring gulal on Holi

02:55Because of the examinations that have been currently that have been

03:00On and that is why to maintain discipline the students were told not to bring gulal to school

03:06But a clear situation of confrontation

03:09by the education department

03:11asking

03:12The school why has it not why has it issued such a notice and also planning to write to the CBSE about it

03:19All right the plan to write to the CBSE about this tiktok from the school

03:24I'm going to thank you Dave getting in those details from Jaipur this morning

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