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GORAKHPUR: A government primary school in Navalpur village of Salempur block in Deoria has been found to be taking weekly off on Fridays, remaining open on Sundays and maintaining all school documents in Urdu.

DM Sujit Kumar has directed basic shiksha adhikari (BSA) Santosh Kumar Dev Pandey to probe the matter. "A report has been sought from the BSA. It is a serious issue since the school was closed on Fridays instead of Sundays without any order or direction," the DM said."When a team visited the school on Friday morning, they found it closed Islamia Primary School Navalpur was written on the building instead of Primary School Navalpur," said block education officer Gyanchand Mishra.

Mishra called principal Khurshid Ahmad along with all documents and found that the school used to remain closed on Fridays and opened on Sundays. All school documents were also in Urdu.

The principal said the practice was in place when he joined in 2008 and that it was being done since 95% students of the school were Muslims.

