The Madras High Court has made it clear that the national anthem should be sung in all private schools in Tamil Nadu during the morning assembly. A Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M.M. Sundresh gave the direction on a petition seeking that singing of national anthem should be made mandatory in schools. “Private schools must follow such singing of national anthem as part of their curriculum,” the bench said disposing a PIL by N. Selvathirumal, an ex-service man, seeking a direction to authorities to make it mandatory for all private schools in the State to sing the national anthem during the assembly. The Bench while recording the stand of the authorities including Union of India that national anthem ought to be sung, in its order directed Central and State Departments of Secondary Education and the Union Human Resources Department to make endeavours to verify whether national anthem was sung in all private schools in the state. Mr. Selvathiurumal s...