Chandigarh, April 27 -- After summer vacations, government school teachers in Chandigarh will be sporting more than just books and chalk- they will be donning uniforms too.

In possibly the first-of-its-kind move in the country, the UT administration, on the advice of UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria, has made it mandatory for teachers to follow a dress code across all 111 government schools.

On Saturday, the dress code was officially unveiled at Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 14, Dhanas, in the presence of the administrator.

"The uniform specifications of the dress outline that female employees will don sarees or salwar kameez, while male employees will wear formal shirts and trousers," the education department sa...