A plea claiming that all students of the Kendriya Vidyalayas, irrespective of their faith and belief, have to compulsorily recite a prayer based on the Hindu religion at the morning assembly, today led the Supreme Court to seek the government's response.
A bench of Justices RF Nariman and Navin Sinha issued notice to the government on the plea which said that the morning assembly prayer was being enforced throughout the country in all the Kendriya Vidyalayas, which are also known as Central Schools.
The request of recorded by Madhya Pradesh inhabitant Veenayak Shah said the act of supplication made obstructions in creating logical personality among understudies as the entire thought of God and religious confidence is given tremendous need and ingrained as a point of view among the understudies.
Understudies therefore figure out how to build up a slant towards looking for asylum from the omnipotent as opposed to building up a handy result towards the snags and obstacles looked in regular day to day existence, and the soul of enquiry and change is by all accounts lost some place
The supplication said
The appeal to likewise said that since the supplication is being implemented, the guardians and offspring of the minority groups and in addition nonbelievers and others discover the inconvenience intrinsically impermissible.
Shah likewise submitted under the steady gaze of the court that the basic supplication is a "religious direction" inside the significance of Article 28 of the Constitution and ought to consequently be denied.
Article 28(1) of the Constitution says that no religious guideline should be given in any instructive foundation completely kept up out of state reserves.
"A perusal of the prayer shows that it is based on Hindu religion and it is very different both in substance and form from the prayers of the other religious/non-religious orientations mentioned above.
"The issue that arises therefore is whether the state may impose the above mentioned "common prayer" on students and teachers throughout the country," the plea said.
"Issue direction to respondents (Centre and KV) to forthwith discontinue any form of prayer from the morning assembly or otherwise in Kendriya Vidhalaya Sangathans and to promote scientific learning among the students," it said.
The network expands to about 1,125 schools, ensuring a uniform curriculum and syllabus all over India, thus making it one of world's largest chain of schools. These schools have been operational for over 50 years now.