<div align="justify">The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, ran into a controversy on Tuesday after warden of a women’s hostel in the campus issued a notice seeking the inmates to wear "full covered descent dresses" on the upcoming House Day to be observed on April 20.<br /><br />The institute administration, however, swung into action and got the notice withdrawn immediately as the row erupted. “There is no dress code in our campus. Some warden issued such a notice on her own. The notice was not the institute’s stand. We have withdrawn it,” the IIT-Delhi V Ram Gopal Rao told DH.<br /><br />The controversial dress code was prescribed to the Himadri hostel residents by its warden Sreedevi Upadhyayula, who is also an associate professor with the institute.<br />“The House Day is on April 20. All the residents are requested to wear a full covered decent western or Indian or western dresses,” the notice read.<br /><br />“I am away from the institute. I will talk to her (hostel warden) about the notice after I return,” the IIT Director said, when asked if the hostel warden was issued any show cause notice on the issue. Upadhyayula, however, denied having issued any such notice. <br /><br />"I have not issued any such notice. It looks like some prank by students as it has been circulated on social media as well. I have been told that it has my signatures as well and I have called a meeting of the hostel staff to investigate the issue,” a news agency quoted the hostel warden as saying.<br /><br />Students of the institute, however, rejected the warden’s claim on condition of anonymity, saying the circular put up on the Hostel’s notice board was signed and issued by her.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Delhi Women Commission Chief Swati Maliwal criticised the institute over issue of such a notice to its girl students, describing the move as "patriarchal."<br /><br />"It is a horrible display of a patriarchal mindset by a prestigious institution like IIT. This kind of moral policing needs to stop. The DCW is looking into the matter," she said.</div>
<div align="justify">The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, ran into a controversy on Tuesday after warden of a women’s hostel in the campus issued a notice seeking the inmates to wear "full covered descent dresses" on the upcoming House Day to be observed on April 20.<br /><br />The institute administration, however, swung into action and got the notice withdrawn immediately as the row erupted. “There is no dress code in our campus. Some warden issued such a notice on her own. The notice was not the institute’s stand. We have withdrawn it,” the IIT-Delhi V Ram Gopal Rao told DH.<br /><br />The controversial dress code was prescribed to the Himadri hostel residents by its warden Sreedevi Upadhyayula, who is also an associate professor with the institute.<br />“The House Day is on April 20. All the residents are requested to wear a full covered decent western or Indian or western dresses,” the notice read.<br /><br />“I am away from the institute. I will talk to her (hostel warden) about the notice after I return,” the IIT Director said, when asked if the hostel warden was issued any show cause notice on the issue. Upadhyayula, however, denied having issued any such notice. <br /><br />"I have not issued any such notice. It looks like some prank by students as it has been circulated on social media as well. I have been told that it has my signatures as well and I have called a meeting of the hostel staff to investigate the issue,” a news agency quoted the hostel warden as saying.<br /><br />Students of the institute, however, rejected the warden’s claim on condition of anonymity, saying the circular put up on the Hostel’s notice board was signed and issued by her.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Delhi Women Commission Chief Swati Maliwal criticised the institute over issue of such a notice to its girl students, describing the move as "patriarchal."<br /><br />"It is a horrible display of a patriarchal mindset by a prestigious institution like IIT. This kind of moral policing needs to stop. The DCW is looking into the matter," she said.</div>
