Dankur ,Noida,JAN. 26 : Tension erupted in Greater Noida’s Dankaur after some extremists opposed flag hoisting and modern education in a muslim girls school on Monday. The school is recognized and registered with minority welfare department of UP since October 2011. On Monday some people from school authority went to the school to install iron rod to fix the flag but miscreants hackled the labour and asked to leave the place. Acting on the issue, the police and administration has swung into action.
The police called some locals to Dankaur police station and they in front of the cops had agitated on giving education of other languages in school. The police, however taking the matter seriously and has given ultimatum to all people that if they try to oppose national flag hoisting in the school on Republic Day then they will have to face serious consequences.
Dankaur police station officer Chakrapani Sharma said that nobody will be allowed to take law in their hand. “Some uneducated persons were opposing flag hoisting ceremony. We have informed our seniors about the incident and to avoid any untoward incident on Tuesday amidst heavy force flag hoisting ceremony will take place in the school. These extremists were also raising questions over teaching Hindi and English. After Republic Day, we will call them and ensure teaching of modern education in the school,” Sharma said.
“Saiyyad Bhureshah muslim girl school is running on waqf committee land. Since 2011, education till 5th class is offered to the children. Initially everything was going well but tension cropped up when we decided to offer Hindi and English teaching to the students. We would like to run this school on the line of Centre’s scheme of modernization of madarsas’ but some extremists are creating trouble,” said adir Khan Jayaswal, secretary of the Hazrat Syed Bhureshah Committee.
“Now situation has gone from bad to worse. Teachers have stopped visiting the school and situation is created so that education could not be offered in the school. We had given complaint to the UP chief minister, UP governor, GB Nagar district magistrate, GB Nagar senior superintendent of police and local Dankaur police station about the incident. Despite the fact, some local extremists are mounting pressure on us to withdraw modern education,” he added.
“These extremist are also opposing of flag hoisting ceremony on Republic Day. They have threatened us for serious consequences, if we execute flag hoisting. On Monday our staff went to the school land to install rod for the national flag hoisting ceremony but the miscreants hackled staff and asked to leave place,” he added.
“On Monday we have again filed complaint with district magistrate office and GB Nagar SSP to ensure flag hoisting ceremony and provide force to avoid any untoward incident,” he further said.
