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Remove caste names from schools or face de-recognitions
The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram
|April 17, 2025
The Madras High Court has ordered removal of caste tags from school and college names within four weeks.
The institutions must be derecognised if they fail to comply with the order, and authorities must complete the exercise within the 2025-26 academic year, the court said.
This story is from the April 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram.
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