Bhatkal: Various Muslim Managements of educational institutions of Bhatkal visited Bangalore and met with the Minister of Education Tanveer Saith demanding to continue Friday as the weekly holiday in schools.

In separate memorandums of different educational institutions, they said that the practice of observing Friday as a full day holiday and Thursday as a half day and all other weekdays as full working days has been followed for about a century now in all Muslim Minority schools in Bhatkal, Murdeshwar, Manki and Shiroor. They say we see no advantage of uniformity of observing Sunday as compulsory weekly holiday in Muslim Minority Schools. There are very few Muslim parents in this area working in Government or other companies which observe Sunday as weekly holiday.

They also informed to the minister that the present continuity in weekly holiday is also convenient for students and teachers to travel to their nearby hometowns.

Muslim delegation demanded the ministers to amend the recent government order of education department enforcing Sunday as a full holiday and Friday as a half working day and allowing Muslim institutions of Bhatkal to continue to observe the age old practice on all other days including Sunday.

The delegations consisted of President and secretaries of Anjuman Hami-e-Muslimeen,  Bhatkal, Naunihal Central school, Bhatkal, Shams English Medium high school, Bhatkal, Madire Hawwa Islamic school, Bhatkal, Ali Public school, Bhatkal, Iqra English medium school, Murdeshwar and National High school Murdeshwar.

The delegation also met MP K Rehman Khan and submitted the same memo copy requesting the same.

The delegation was led by the president of Bhatkal social organization Majlis-e-Islah wo tanzeem Bhatkal Muzammil Kazia. Anjuman President Abdul Rahim Jukaku, Secretary Javid Hussain Armar, Members of other schools Abdullah Damudi, Ibrahim Khattal, Ubaidullah Hagalwadi, Shabeeb Kola, Talha Siddibapa and many others were present.