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