The raid on 125-year-old St Mary’s Higher Secondary School run by Christian missionaries only for girls has created unrest among the people of Mhow. locals have come up against the district administration for taking action against the school management despite the fact that the students in the school are studying against nominal fee.
Few days back the administration comprising of SDM Mhow Vijay Agrawal, Tehsildar Tapish Pandey, Tehsildar Abhishek Sharma, BRC Sanjay Nelson had raided the Ganesh cloth centre at Mhow and had seized hundreds of pairs of school dresses with the mono of St Mary’s Higher secondary school from the shop. The administration has booked Mukesh Patidar, the owner of the Ganesh cloth center and principal of St Mary’s Higher Secondary School under section 188 of the IPC.
Principal of St Mary’s Higher Secondary School Sister Elsa told The Pioneer, “We have called the tender of five shopkeepers and the shopkeeper who provided the reasonable rates and good quality of clothes was permitted for the sale. Secondly if we allow different shopkeepers to sell the dresses, there is the difference in the color and shades of the school dress which looks very awkward. One shopkeeper provides the dresses of same shade and color.”
A delegation of kisan sangh led by mohanlal pandey, bjp leader Santosh Patidar and Dinesh Singh Chouhan presented a memorandum to Tehsildar Tapish Pandey on the name of Indore collector and chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and requested to cancel the case registered against the St Mary’s school and the shopkeeper.
The Sangh leaders told that the administration has deliberately registered the case against the St Mary’s school administration and Ganesh cloth centre under the pressure of power cloth merchants lobby of Mhow who themselves are involved in selling school dresses since many years. Presently 3000 girl student are studying in the school. It is to be noted that St Mary’s higher secondary school is an institution for girls, was founded in January 1893 by group of seven French catholic nuns.
The school provides education to girls from all sections of society irrespective of caste, class or creed, in the spirit of love and selfless service to god and the nation.