{"id":630,"date":"2018-05-16T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=630"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:14","slug":"mp-government-directs-school-children-to-say-jai-hind-during-roll-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/mp-government-directs-school-children-to-say-jai-hind-during-roll-call\/","title":{"rendered":"MP government directs school children to say \u201cJai Hind\u201d during roll call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More things swadeshi and more bizarre ways of evoking patriotic feelings for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, has directed its schools that students must say \u201cJai Hind\u201d during roll call.<\/p>\n<p>On <span data-term=\"goog_815073846\">Tuesday<\/span>, the state government\u00a0directed all state-run schools to abide by this new rule from the new academic session.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing the order, deputy secretary school education Pramod Singh said, \u201cstudents have to answer the attendance roll calls by saying \u2018Jai Hind\u2019 in all 1.22 lakh government schools in the state.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bhopal\/say-jai-hind-to-answer-roll-calls-in-madhya-pradesh-schools\/articleshow\/64184358.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">it was reported.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to state officials, responding with \u201cYes Sir\/Madam\u201d or \u201cPresent, please\u201d does not evoke any sense of patriotism, so it was decided to be replaced by \u201cJai Hind\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Though <span data-term=\"goog_815073847\">Tuesday\u2019s<\/span> directive does not include private schools, the state school education minister Vijay Shah indicated that subsequent advisory will ask private schools to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the state government tried this on an experimental basis in the government schools of Satna from\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_815073848\">October 1<\/span>\u00a0last year. Also, the schools have to sing national anthem and hoist the national flag everyday.<\/p>\n<p>The officials also warned if any school does not agree to follow this norm, stern actions would be taken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More things swadeshi and more bizarre ways of evoking patriotic feelings for the nation. Poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, has directed its schools that students must say \u201cJai Hind\u201d during roll call. On Tuesday, the state government\u00a0directed all state-run schools to abide by this new rule from the new academic session. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}