The society still seems to be divided on religious line and this division is evident even in the colour of school uniforms in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) School Board, where Muslim and Hindu students are distinguished
by their ‘uniforms’.
Shahpur Public School and Dani Limda Public School are unique for being the only English medium schools in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). They also have an added distinction.
Muslim students are made to wear green uniforms in the Dani Limda School whereas the uniform at Shahpur School where most of the students are Hindus is saffron-coloured.
And the other 454 schools run by AMC, all non-English-medium, have the same blue-and-white uniform.
However, the School Board declined to revoke the decision and said the uniform of any of these schools will not be changed.
“The uniforms will remain the same. No decision has been taken to change these. Neither any policy has been framed for the same,” said Administrative Officer (AO) L D Desai.
He termed the selection of saffron for the Shahpur school as a “non-partisan decision” too, taken without any “prejudice or preference” towards a community or organisation.
“The selection of green was a random decision and has nothing to do with any community. We had other options, of pink and blue, too but, keeping in mind the suitability to children, green was finalised”.
Over 98% of the students at Dani Limda Public School, located in the middle of the Muslim-majority Kanubhai slum in Dani Limda village, are Muslim and more than 95% students at Shahpur Public School are Hindu.
Several took to social media to express grief over the prejudice faced by the students and decry how they were being discriminated on the basis of religion.