On a pe­ti­tion by the Delhi Sikh Gur­d­wara Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee to the Na­tional Com­mis­sion for Mi­nor­ity Ed­u­ca­tional In­sti­tu­tions, on be­half of the poor Sikhs of Shil­long, a three-bench com­mit­tee has or­dered that sta­tus quo of the Guru Nanak School be main­tained and the school au­thor­i­ties are not to be ha­rassed. No at­tempt should be made to dis­lo­cate them from their pre­sent po­si­tion in the Pun­jabi lane, Bara Bazar, Shil­long.

Brief­ing the me­dia, Jaswinder Singh Jolly, chair­per­son of the Law Wing of the DS­GMC men­tioned that at least for the pre­sent there is a stay on the dis­lo­ca­tion of the school. 

WSN learns that the DS­GMC pe­ti­tion had pointed out that the Pro­ject Di­rec­tor of the Megha­laya Ed­u­ca­tion De­part­ment had been un­nec­es­sar­ily ha­rass­ing the school au­thor­i­ties and staff, even dur­ing school time by ask­ing the of­fi­cers of the State Ed­u­ca­tion Mis­sion Au­thor­ity of Megha­laya to act against the Guru Nanak School on no grounds or on very flimsy grounds. 

The pe­ti­tion fur­ther pointed out that the school was built and spon­sored by the City Gur­d­wara Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee and it was pri­mar­ily meant for the Sikh com­mu­nity though chil­dren of other com­mu­ni­ties also study there.  The school also served as a cen­tre for im­part­ing train­ing in Sikh re­li­gious and cul­tural ac­tiv­i­ties dur­ing the schools’ off hours.

The pe­ti­tion had fur­ther al­leged that the Dis­trict School Ed­u­ca­tion Of­fi­cer and the Dis­trict Mis­sion Co­or­di­na­tor had off late started ha­rass­ing the school au­thor­i­ties and were forc­ing them to pro­vide place to pri­vate ed­u­ca­tional com­pany.

New Delhi, 31 Au­gust 2018, WSN Delhi News­desk

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