Mizoram government school students wear common uniform

For the first time, students of state-run schools in Mizoram started wearing a common uniform with the new academic session beginning on April 5, a senior official of the school education department said. 

Specifications for the common uniform had been notified separately for primary, middle, high school and higher secondary schools, the director of the school education department, Lalsangliana said. 

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State education minister Lalchhandama Ralte had earlier said that the objective of the introduction of the common uniform was to bring equality between the rich and poor students in both urban and rural areas. 

The students of government schools will no longer require to buy a new set of uniforms when their parents are transferred to other places, the minister had said.