With regard to uniform, the plea said that the Karnataka Education Act, 1983, and the Rules made under the same, do not provide for any mandatory uniform to be worn by students.
“A perusal of the scheme of the Act reveals that it aims to regulate the institutions, rather than the students. Sections 3 and 7 of the said Act provide the State Government with the powers to inter alia regulate education, curriculum of study, medium of instruction, etc. However, neither of these provisions empowers the State Government to prescribe a uniform for the students,” the petition said.
The petition also said that there is no provision in the Act or the rules allowing the formation of a ‘college development committee’.
Such a committee, even if formed, has no powers to regulate the wearing of a uniform, or any other matter in an educational institution, it has been contended.
Source: Barandbench
