Protesting against letters sent to their parents for staging an agitation against the water crisis in their hostel, female students of Delhi University on Monday approached the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) and varsity Vice Chancellor alleging “witch-hunt” by the administration.
Over 200 students of Delhi University’s Undergraduate Hostel for Girls had held a protest on April 23 which went on till around 2.30 am the next day as there was no water supply to the hostel for two months. Delhi Water Minister and Delhi Jal Board chairman Kapil Mishra had met the protesting students and addressed them around midnight. Water supply was restored on April 25.
A month after the incident, parents of some of the students involved in the protest received a letter sent by the hostel administration saying the act was in violation of rule and can have bad impact on other residents. Mr. Mishra, also objected to the letters sent to parents and said he will raise the issue with DU VC Yogesh Tyagi.
“This is intolerable. I will raise it with VC. Students highlighted the failure of DU admin. DU shd be thankful,” he tweeted.
A protesting student said, “calling or writing letters to parents as a threat to silence the voices and resistance of women students will not be tolerated any more. This is gender discrimination and harassment, and has to be called out as that. The university has to stop treating us an infantile ’girls’ and recognize that we are independent adult women who demand that the university be accountable to us and the constitution,” she added. The students today approached the DCW, terming the letters sent to their parents witch-hunt by DU for raising their voice against the administration.— PTI
