UP school tells students to get ‘Yogi haircut’

MEERUT: A CBSE affiliated school in Meerut has come up with a set of bizarre orders for its 2,800 students, from Class I to XII. These include asking them to get hairstyles on the line of CM Yogi Adityanath, saying no to beards because the school was “not a madrassa where people offer namaz”, a blanket prohibition on non-vegetarian food and forced gender segregation to “prevent love jihad”.

The matter came to light on Thursday when some students were not allowed to enter Rishabh Academy Co-Educational English Medium School because they did not have proper haircuts.

Ranjeet Jain, secretary, management committee, of the school said, “I asked the students to get Yogi-like haircuts when they were unable to understand what we wanted. We basically want very short haircuts, of the kind the Army gives. Also, the students have been told strictly to not keep beards as this is not a madrassa or a place where they come to offer namaz.”


The management claimed that since the school was run by a Jain trust, non-vegetarian food – even eggs – is prohibited in tiffin brought by students. Surprise checks are also done in the school to see whether a student is flouting food rules.

The school also enforces gender segregation, making boys and girls study in separate classrooms. “This is being done for the safety of girls and to prevent love jihad. Muslim boys take on names similar to Hindus, befriend girls, tie ‘kalavas’ on their wrists and try to woo girls. I cannot tolerate this in school premises. Moreover, these days nobody likes if a boy from one community touches a girl from another community,” Jain said.