K C Gandhi English School, Kalyan, prohibits students wearing kumkum, tilak, bangles etc.

Kalyan (District Thana) – Kalyan’s famous, K. C. Gandhi English School has prohibited the students practicing basic practices followed by Hindu children, like applying Kumkum on their forehead, wearing bangles, or wearing a rakhi or tying a sacred thread on the wrist etc. this decision of the school administration has angered the parents. The Education Department of Kalyan Dombivli Municipality has asked the School Administration for an explanation.

🚨 K.C. Gandhi English School, Kalyan bans students from wearing Tilak, Bangles & even threatens assault if Tilak is worn!

Hindus—will you send your children to schools that demean Dharma & instill anti-Hindu values? This is nothing less than cultural conversion!

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— Sanatan Prabhat (@SanatanPrabhat) October 1, 2025

Threat of physically harming on wearing a tilak

The parents said that if a student wore a tilak on his forehead in school, then it was forcibly wiped off his forehead. The parents claimed that in some cases the students were also physically beaten. The parents allege that the teachers have been threatening students that if they come to school wearing a tilak they will be punished. (If this claim is true, then it extremely exasperating and wrong. If the teachers only speak in this manner to a Muslim student about removing the hijab if they come to school wearing one, then there would be violence with slogans of ‘Sar tan se juda’. This a known fact. – Editor)

Complaint made to the Municipal Education Department

Complaint has been made against the school’s decision of not allowing the Hindu students to practice the tenets of their religion; to Rupesh Bhoir the leader of Thackeray group of the Kalyan Vidhansabha Association. Bhoir has filed this complaint to the Education Department of the Kalyan-Dombivali Municipality.

Editorial Perspectives

Hindus , now parents have to decide whether they want to send their children to a school where they are taught to stop practicing small basic Hindu traditions? This is a type of religious conversion, take serious note of this fact.

Small routine practices of Hindus give a lot of Chaitanya and positive energy. They are beneficial for our wards. Knowing this Parents should be firm in their resolve that their children will follow the traditional practices of Hindu Culture/ religion.