In a bizarre diktat, the Telangana government has ruled that only unmarried women can study in the social welfare residential women's degree colleges in the state.
Recently, the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS), in its notification, inviting applications for admissions into the residential degree colleges, read: "The TSWREIS invites applications from women (unmarried) candidates for admission into BA/B.Com/B.Sc 1st year degree courses for the academic year 2017-18," reported The Times of India.
It's been a year since the rule has been imposed.
Justifying their decision,TSWREIS content manager B Venkat Raju said that the step was taken only to ensure that other(unmarried) girls do not get distracted as the husbands of the married women may visit them at the campus.
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Speaking to NewsX, National Commission for Women (NCW) chief, Lalitha Kumaramangalam termed the decision as "regressive" and a lapse of “women constitutional right”.
Currently, there are 4,000 married women pursuing education in 23 residential colleges who stay in hostels.
Well, it's not the first time that women have to abide by such bizarre rules.
In 2015, a list of rules rolled out as ''Special Instructions For Girls' allegedly by the Sri Sai Ram Engineering College in Chennai, had led to a massive outrage.
There were instructions like "no leggings/tight pants", "no short kurtha", "no lose hairs", two sides of duppata should be pinned up, etc, says this report by India Today.
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However, the college had denied releasing any such notice.
