Srijan Foundation

The school, named Krishna-Avanti Primary School, is located in the London borough of Harrow, which has the highest concentration of Hindus in any coun cil in Britain: 40,000.

The school is promoted by a charity organisation called the I-Foundation. The policy had earlier defined “practising Hindus” as those who performed daily prayer and deity worship either at a temple or at home, and accepted and followed Vedic scriptures, in particular the Bhagavad Gita.

It also said that practising Hindus must be involved in temple voluntary work, attend temple programmes at least fortnightly and abstain from non-vegetarian food, alcohol, smoking and drugs. Nitesh Gor, director of the I-Foundation, said, “As the intention of the school’s sponsors is to create a school open to all across the community, we have therefore decided to devolve responsibility for defining a practising Hindu to local temples, whatever branch of Hinduism they represent.”

 ”This will give to the authorities at each individual temple the power to determine whether an individual is practising in line with the values a of their particular branch of Hinduism”.

 The Indian Army has moved more than 6,000 troops to the Chinese border amid reports of Chinese intrusions in Bhutan. The Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Deepak Kapoor, said here on Thursday, however, that the reported intrusions of Chinese forces into Bhutan was “a matter between the two countries.”

The shifting of Army formations north of Nathu-La comes in the wake of reports of Chinese troops coming close to the Siliguri corridor. But the Army authorities said that Chinese forces had been coming close to the Dolam Plateau for over two decades, as the boundary in the area is still to be precisely defined.

The Army Chief also said that infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir had been continuing, and warned that there was a chance of “jihadis and fundamentalists,” facing a renewed crackdown in Pakistan, sneaking into India, and specifically across the Line of Control into Jammu and Kashmir, in the wake of the political turmoil in the neighbouring country.

  On the issue of infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir, the Army Chief said: “This could be a tactic by Pakistan to divert attention from its internal crisis.” He added that infiltration had not stopped and was actually continuing in Jammu and Kashmir. Though it is more difficult to cross over during the winter due to the snow, Gen. Kapoor said the militants used routes south of the Pir Panjal ranges to sneak in.

“Ever since the passes have been opened in Jammu and Kashmir, infiltration has been on. And now that the passes are closing down due to snow, there is a possibility that influx bids are shifted to areas south of Pir Panjal, where there is not much snow,” the Army Chief said. Gen. Kapoor said the security forces had mounted strict vigil all along the Line of Control to check any spurt in militant activities.