While the original circular issued by the school instructed teachers not to wear hijab, a revised circular changing 'hijab' to 'niqab' was issued two days later.
A private school for specially abled children in Jammu-Kashmir’s Baramulla has asked teachers to remove hijab during school hours to allow students to have safe communication with the teachers and the staff.
The hijab controversy has reached the Kashmir valley in India as the former chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir have reacted to an order copy of a private school, which has asked the teachers not to wear hijab on school premises.
A private school 'Dagger Parivar' which was developed jointly by Indrani Balan Foundation, a Pune-based NGO and the Chinar Corps Indian Army, has asked all the female teachers to not wear the hijab in the school.