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Residents will not be asked for IDs every time they enter their own hostels.Entry of friends and visitors will not be restricted on showing of valid ID proof.Curfew timings for the gates of various hostels inside the compound were extended to 10 pm.Curfew timings for the main gate of the hostel compound were extended to 8 pm in summer and 7 pm in winter.Seeing their determination, the VC agreed to hold a meeting on their demands and finally reached an agreement whereby: They sat there through the night, singing and chanting slogans, asserting that hostels should not be like jails. But when the VC told them that their demand for azaadi was detrimental to their own safety and that if they felt too suffocated they could go elsewhere, the angry students decided to start a hunger-strike on the spot. There should be a committee of women students in the hostels which should be included in the decision-making process regarding hostels.įor hours, the registrars, deans and wardens tried to placate them, threaten them and ridicule them, but the students didn’t budge till the VC came and spoke to them.All departments should have sanitary pad-vending machines.Security and lighting should be increased on campus.Women students should be allowed to go to all programmes in the university at night without any conditions.E-rickshaw facilities should be made available on campus.Female friends should be allowed inside hostels.

The gates of hostels inside the compound which are closed by 7 or 8 pm should be open 24/7.Entry to the main gate of the hostel compound be extended to 8pm.In the letter they wrote to the VC, the agitating students said, “Though the constitution of this country has given equal status to women … living in the hostels of the university … feel this equality to be false as there are so many unconstitutional rules imposed on them in the hostels which are entirely based on discrimination’. Student Protests Have Challenged the Ideological Stagnation of BHU.Haryana, No Country for Women, Old or Young.They came out of their hostels again and marched to the nearby Kranti Chowk, where they sat shouting slogans against the administration and for their azaadi (freedom) from the arbitrary restrictions imposed on them. The wardens did talk to the students, and even their parents, but the women were not in a mood to listen. The next evening, the administration tried to ‘calm’ matters by instructing hostel wardens to ‘talk’ to them. They went back to their hostels only on the assurance of a formal meeting with the VC and other administrators the next day.

They demanded the university administration and vice chancellor (VC) come and talk to them. The daily frustration and anger against being controlled like this then coalesced into a dharna by around 200-300 women, demanding relaxation in the curfew timings and an end to the daily surveillance over their entry and exit. On the evening of February 18, the residents of these hostels, unable to attend an ongoing theatre festival inside the university campus because of being locked inside after 6 pm, gathered around their hostel gates and demanded that they be allowed to attend the festival.īy the time the administration came with ‘permissions’ and buses to take them to the venue in a ‘disciplined’ way, students had stormed out of the gates and marched to the venue. The curfew timings for these hostels have been 5.30/6 pm in winter and 7 pm in summer. The university has nine hostels for women students with about 2,000 residents. The unusual that has happened is that may be for the first time in the university, women students have challenged the restrictions and controls imposed on them through hostel curfews and various kinds of surveillance. As one enters Maharshi Dayanand University’s campus in Rohtak, Haryana, everything looks normal on the surface, but there is a palpable tension in the air – a sense of something unusual.