Bangalore, Aug 20 - The Mangalore University has called a meeting of principals of affiliated colleges to discuss a campus dress code following the insistence of a Muslim student that she be allowed to wear a head scarf in the classroom.

'The vice-chancellor will convene a meeting of principals of colleges affiliated to the Mangalore University to arrive at a consensus on the issue,' a senior official said Thursday.

The meeting is likely to be held in two-three days.

'The meeting will send a proposal to the government which may help it form rules for the entire state,' K.V. Kodandaramaiah, director in the state directorate of collegiate education, told IANS on phone from Mangalore.

Mangalore is the main town of the communally sensitive Dakshina Kannada district, about 350 km from here.

Kodandaramaiah visited Mangalore Thursday for talks with the vice-chancellor, the deputy commissioner and principal of Sri Venkataramana Swamy College where Ayesha Ashmin, 19, is a first-year Bachelor of Commerce student.

Ashmin has not been attending the college for the last 12 days after she was told that she cannot wear a head scarf in the classroom.

She has met vice-chancellor K.M. Kaveriappa and deputy commissioner V. Ponnuraj seeking their intervention.

Both Kaveriappa and Ponnuraj have asked the college to explain their action.