Sikh couple plan new school to combat turban ban

For Gurdial Singh and his wife Surjeet Kaur, a Sikh couple from France, life was wonderful in their adopted country till the French government decided to ban the wearing of turbans in schools.

That was in 2004, and the Sikh couple from Bobigny near Paris was forced to withdraw their 14-year-old son Jasbir Singh from the Louis Mission school.

Since then, the couple and others from their community have been fighting for lifting the ban, something that "does not go well with French ethos and values". They are part of United Sikhs, an organisation mobilising public opinion on the issue.

A successful name in the construction business, Singh has drawn up plans to set up an educational campus that would be known as Shere Punjab Complexe (SPC) in Bobigny.

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