The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay has reportedly asked the students to use separate plates to eat non-vegetarian food at the mess in the residential hostel for women post-graduate and researchers.
The University said that they’ve been receiving complaints about the plates used for non-vegetarian food in an official email sent to the students. Suchisree Dhansiri, a student at IIT-B posted a screenshot of the same on Facebook. The post has attracted a lot of criticism from fellow students who are now accusing the college authorities to be ‘racist’.
According to another IIT-Bombay student, vegetarians and non-vegetarian students already used to sit at different tables. This is the first time that they’ve been asked to use separate plates. She said that a mail has been sent to all students without any consultation from the hostel administration when one or two students expressed their objection to the issue.
IIT-Bombay, however, clarified the situation by saying that all IIT-Bombay hostels always serve non-vegetarian food at a separate counter in a separate small dish. The University stated that there are no separate plates for non-veg food at all. This practice has been in all hostels for a long time and some student has misunderstood the request, therefore denying that it had issued any such direction.
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