New Delhi: Aligarh Muslim University students backed Vice Chancellor Zameeruddin Shah Remarks and said that his remarks were misinterpreted. One of the students said, “We raised the demand to use the central library during university polls. There is a space problem. His remarks were misinterpreted.
The Union HRD minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday slammed the Aligarh Muslim University vice chancellor calling his statements against women an insult. Irani confirmed that on her orders, a senior secretary of the ministry got in touch with the Vice Chancellor Lieutenant General Zameeruddin Shah, intervening after the VC claimed that certain girls were not permitted into the university library since they would distract boys and that the number of boys in libraries ‘would go up four times.
We are training girls; our focus is on training, on this day if someone talks like that, as the head of an institution, it is shocking. Just because the library is small you cut the woman out of it. I will take it up not just as a minority affairs minister, but as a woman,” a visibly irked Heptullah told the media.
The report states that students from the Women’s College don’t have access to the library since its inception. Women’s students unions in the past had demanded entry to the library, in vain. The library is considered better stocked than the one in the college for women.
Avoiding the question if undergraduate women students can go to the library, Abrar said, “Undergraduates have their own library. Undergraduate girls can order books and get it in 24 hours. The boys hostels are closer to the library so they can go there anytime.
TOI quotes the president of the students union in the Women’s College, Gulfiza Khan as saying: “We are students of Aligarh Muslim University. We, too, should have the benefit of accessing the famous Maulana Azad Library. The library in the Women’s College is not enough. If space is a problem, we can just issue books and not sit in the library.
Bureau Report
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