IIT-B college students complain of meals discrimination after ‘vegetarians solely’ poster put up on canteen partitions

By PTI

MUMBAI: Students have raised the problem of meals discrimination on the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) after ‘vegetarians solely’ posters have been put up on the partitions of a canteen in one of many hostels right here, a pupil consultant stated on Sunday.

Posters stating ‘vegetarians solely are allowed to take a seat right here’ have been put up on the partitions of the canteen of Hostel 12 on the prestigious establishment final week, and {a photograph} of the identical went viral on social media.

An official from the institute claimed that whereas that they had discovered concerning the posters, they didn’t know who had put them up within the canteen. There aren’t any mounted seats for individuals consuming totally different classes of meals and the institute is unaware about who put up the posters, he stated.

Representatives of the scholar collective Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle (APPSC) condemned the incident and tore the posters.

“Though RTIs and emails to the hostel’s general secretary revealed that there is no policy for food segregation at the institute, some individuals have taken it upon themselves to designate certain mess areas as ‘vegetarians only’ and force other students to leave that area,” the AAPSC stated.

Following the incident, the hostel’s basic secretary despatched an electronic mail to all college students saying, “There is a counter for Jain distribution within the hostel’s mess, however there is no such thing as a designated sitting area for individuals who eat Jain meals.

There have been reviews of people forcefully designating sure areas of the mess as ‘Jain sitting area’ and never permitting people who deliver non-vegetarian meals to take a seat in these areas,” the overall secretary wrote.

” Such behaviour is unacceptable and no pupil has the proper to take away one other pupil from any space of the mess on the grounds that it’s reserved for a selected neighborhood.

If any such incident is repeated, we will probably be pressured to take strict motion in opposition to these concerned,” he acknowledged within the electronic mail.

MUMBAI: Students have raised the problem of meals discrimination on the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) after ‘vegetarians solely’ posters have been put up on the partitions of a canteen in one of many hostels right here, a pupil consultant stated on Sunday.

Posters stating ‘vegetarians solely are allowed to take a seat right here’ have been put up on the partitions of the canteen of Hostel 12 on the prestigious establishment final week, and {a photograph} of the identical went viral on social media.

An official from the institute claimed that whereas that they had discovered concerning the posters, they didn’t know who had put them up within the canteen. There aren’t any mounted seats for individuals consuming totally different classes of meals and the institute is unaware about who put up the posters, he stated.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Representatives of the scholar collective Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle (APPSC) condemned the incident and tore the posters.

“Though RTIs and emails to the hostel’s general secretary revealed that there is no policy for food segregation at the institute, some individuals have taken it upon themselves to designate certain mess areas as ‘vegetarians only’ and force other students to leave that area,” the AAPSC stated.

Following the incident, the hostel’s basic secretary despatched an electronic mail to all college students saying, “There is a counter for Jain distribution within the hostel’s mess, however there is no such thing as a designated sitting area for individuals who eat Jain meals.

There have been reviews of people forcefully designating sure areas of the mess as ‘Jain sitting area’ and never permitting people who deliver non-vegetarian meals to take a seat in these areas,” the overall secretary wrote.

” Such behaviour is unacceptable and no pupil has the proper to take away one other pupil from any space of the mess on the grounds that it’s reserved for a selected neighborhood.

If any such incident is repeated, we will probably be pressured to take strict motion in opposition to these concerned,” he acknowledged within the electronic mail.