Bhiwani/New Delhi, Dec. 9 (ANI): The administration of Bhiwani Adarsh Mahila Mahavidayalaya has asked girls coming attired in western wear to pay a fine of rupees 100 for violating the varsity discipline.
Principal Alaka Sharma said the ban would help thwart incidents like eve teasing among others.
"The reason why we have imposed ban on jeans and t-shirts because these are completely westernised and are short dresses. The small dresses don't cover students and that is the reason why they have to face eve-teasing due to which parents and college administration face problem. Another reason to impose this ban is to maintain the decorum of the college, every child should look same irrespective of what class she belongs, and through this nobody will have superiority and inferiority complex. Considering all these things, all students will come in Indian dress and would not wear jeans and t-shirts as it attracts men," said Sharma.
Sharma also added that the reason of this ban was to maintain decorum in the college.
The ban has evoked strong reactions from students.
Ritu, a student, objected to the ban, saying: " The ban on wearing jeans and t-shirts doesn't mean that there will be no crimes and that boys will not pass lurid comments against you. Men who want to eve-tease can do it even if a girl dons Indian clothes. I don't think, dressing in Indian attire will bring a change, and it all depends on individual. Suppose a girl is wearing a burkha and has not covered her face, men can eve-tease her irrespective of what she is wearing."
According to media reports, the dress code also applies to the female educators as well while male teachers have been asked to wear formal pants and shirts.
Meanwhile, in New Delhi, the Chairperson of the National Commission For Women, Mamata Sharma, termed the ban acase of having no knowledge and urged the Haryana Government to take immediate action against the college administration.
"I think, the college administration is less aware about education. I think the government should take actions against college management or such institution, who impose diktat on girls over wearing jeans and t-shirts. Our country is progressing, we have entered into 21st century and it is very disappointing to hear or see such things. One more thing is that these things cannot bring any change. So I believe awareness is needed. I also urge the government to take actions against the principal who fined girls over wearing western clothes," said Mamata Sharma.
Recently, a village council in Baghpat district had barred women from using mobile phones and banned their visit to weekly markets alongside discouraging love marriages.
Such diktats had evoked large-scale public outrage while the village council challenged even district and state authorities over the issue.
Though India is growing both in global influence and affluence, on the practical front, the country's women are discriminated against, abused and even killed on a scale unparalleled in the top 19 economies of the world.
Indeed, among most of the conservative families in north India, a girl's fight for survival begins in the womb due to an overwhelming desire for sons and fear of dowry, which has resulted in 12 million girls being aborted over the last three decades, according to a 2011 study by The Lancet. (ANI)
|
|
Comments:
