The National Institute of Technology, Calicut, has released a circular forbidding female students from hanging out with the boys in college – and topped it with a misogynistic threat to expel only the former.
The circular, issued on the November 22 by the warden of the institute addresses the females on campus and says that they are not to “roam with boy students inside residential campus.”
It adds that if any girl is found doing so, “severe action will be taken against her including suspension and expulsion from hostel.”
Pointedly, it mentions that the consequences of the actions will be borne by only the girl and not the boy found ‘roaming’ with her.
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NIT, formerly the Calicut Regional Engineering College, is a central government funded technical university.
Students from the college have been up-in-arms about the circular, issued by the hostel warden S Bhuvaneswari was taken down from college notice boards after it was widely criticized.
Here is a copy of the circular:
Speaking with The Times Of India, the Dean (student’s welfare) says that the warden may have some rationale behind the circular, mentioning that “The warden... might have only intended to remind students about courtesies.”
Other staff from the college is not happy with it either. The newspaper quotes Professor Paul Joseph of the department of electrical engineering from the college. Joseph says that some people have not a clue about the changes taking place in society at the moment. “I really wonder where are we going? Let them suspend some students for walking together, then I will interfere as a citizen of our great India! I really don't know this person who has put that notice!!” he says.
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The notice though, is out in the public domain, reeking of misogyny and leaving a trail of controversy in its wake.
