Pupils to answer roll call with Jai Hind'

Bhopal: Students of government as well as private schools in Madhya Pradesh will now be required to answer roll calls in their classes with chant of “Jai Hind.”

This was announced by Madhya Pradesh education minister Vijay Shah here on Monday.

Earlier, the new practice of answering roll call by students with “Jai Hind” was introduced in Satna district in MP.

The state government has now decided to extend the system to all the government schools in MP.

“Even the private schools will also be asked to introduce the practice for their students”, the minister said.

“More than one lakh students studying in the government-run schools in the state will now answer the roll calls with ‘Jai Hind,” official sources said. From January one this year, the MP school education department has made singing of national anthem and hoisting of national flag mandatory for all the schools in the state.