---Principal Sita Gajadharsingh-Nanga will once again face closed gates at the Tunapuna Hindu School after March 27. That was the warning issued yesterday by Satnarayn Maharaj, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, after the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) approved the principal's transfer to the Bon Air Government Primary School last week.

Gajadharsingh-Nanga has not accepted the transfer, sources confirmed last week, and this reached the board of the SDMS.

Maharaj said she had to leave by the deadline date given by the TSC.

"She has to go because she is now the principal of the Bon Air Primary School and she cannot be the principal of both schools," Maharaj said in a telephone interview yesterday.

"Why is she refusing the transfer?" Maharaj asked.

"I would think she would want to leave the school as soon as possible and I don't understand why she would not want to be the principal at the Bon Air school," he said.

Maharaj said the allegations of discrimination raised against him by Gajadharsingh-Nanga were all proven false.

"She cannot say it's too far because it is on the corridor and is the same distance from her home and her son's school as this school is. So what is her real reason?" he asked.

This transfer was expected to close a final door on the dispute since it was first brought to the public's attention when People's National Movement senator Patricia McIntosh raised it in Parliament last November.

Gajadharsingh-Nanga had accused Maharaj of using his influence on the SDMS board to regulate the number of Afro-Trinidadian pupils at the school. Subsequent investigations however cleared Maharaj of the allegations.

Several attempts to reach the principal yesterday proved futile.

—Renuka Singh