Protesting against the letters sent to their parents for staging an agitation against water crisis in their hostels, female students from Delhi University on Monday approached the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) and varsity Vice-Chancellor alleging “witch-hunt” by administration. The letter stated the protest as violating the hostel code of conduct.
Over 200 students of Delhi University’s Undergraduate Hostel for Girls (UGHG) had held a protest on
April 23 which went on till around 2.30 am the next day. There had been no water supply in the hostel for two months.
Delhi Water Minister and Jal Board chairman Kapil Mishra had met the protesting students and addressed them around midnight. Water supply was restored on April 25. Mishra also objected to the letters sent to parents and said that he would raise the issue with DU V-C Yogesh Tyagi.” This is intolerable. I will raise it with V-C. Students highlighted the failure of DU admin. DU should be thankful,” he tweeted.
A protesting student said: “The university has to stop treating us as infantile ‘girls’ and recognise that we are independent adult women who demand that the university be accountable to us and the Constitution.”
“This is an age-old sexist ploy universities have constantly used against women students, colluding with the patriarchal and casteist family’s desire to control and restrict women’s aspirations and dreams,” the complaint sent to DCW said.
The students also marched to the Vice Chancellor’s office but were stopped midway by the university’s security.