Bhagalpur (Bihar): Amid the reports of Taliban curtailing women's rights in Afghanistan, a women's college in Bihar's Bhagalpur has banned wavy hair for girl students to trigger controversy.
In a fresh notice issued by the Sunderwati Mahila Mahavidyalaya college authorities, a new dress code has been prescribed for the girl students of Inter (Session 2021-23). According to the code, wavy hair has been banned in the college premises. Not only this, the girl students are also prohibited from taking selfies inside the college premises.
The girl students will have to come to college in one or two braids and girls with open hair will not be given admission in the college. The decision taken by the committee of Sundarvati Mahila Mahavidyalaya has been approved by the principal, Prof. Raman Sinha.
According to the information, about 1,500 girls are currently enrolled in the college in the three faculties of 12th i.e. Science, Commerce and Arts, for which recently Principal Prof. Raman Sinha had formed a committee to decide the new dress code.
The committee has also made it mandatory for the girls to wear royal blue Kurti, white salwar, white dupatta, white stocking, black shoe and two or one ponytails of hair, while royal blue blazer and cardigan in the winter season. In the issued instructions, it has been clearly said that without the dress code, admission to the college will be prohibited.
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This is not for the first time that a person in authority had created controversy about the dress code.
Earlier, former Chief Minister Of Uttarakhand, Tirath Singh Rawat's derogatory remark on women clothes has sparked controversy.
Addressing a workshop organised by the Uttarakhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights in Dehradun, Rawat had said that he was shocked after seeing a woman seated near him on an aeroplane wearing ripped jeans.
"Recently when I was returning from Jaipur...I noticed a woman sitting beside me. She was wearing gumboots and ripped jeans exposing her knees. The woman, who runs an NGO, was with her two kids. What kind of values would you give to your children?" Rawat has said.
"The atmosphere that is being created is not right. This is becoming the atmosphere of the Britishers and people consider the Britishers to be good. I am urging parents to give good value to their children at home. The child who has good values can never fail," he had added.
