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AMU gives girl students access to main library Rajesh Kumar Pandey,TNN | Nov 26, 2014, 12.52 AM IST [The news report is admittedly a bit confusing. Never mind. The essence is that the "undergraduate girl students of the university's Abdullah Women's College [now] can also become members of the library." Let's see.] ALLAHABAD: Women students of Aligarh Muslim University will no longer be excluded from the central library of the 94-year-old institution. On Tuesday, AMU vice chancellor Lt Gen (retd) Zameeruddin Shah submitted in writing before the Allahabad high court that all students, including girls, have been allowed access to the Maulana Azad Library from the current session itself. He also clarified that undergraduate girl students of the university's Abdullah Women's College can also become members of the library. Recording Shah's assurances placed before the court, a division bench of chief justice Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud and justice Pradeep Kumar Singh Baghel disposed of a PIL that alleged the VC had adopted a discriminatory attitude by denying girl students access to the Maulana Azad Library. The PIL was filed by Allahabad University law student Deeksha Dwivedi and three other students. "If the male students are not barred in the main library, excluding of women students raises a serious question of propriety because a regulatory measure cannot target students on gender basis on the ground that the facility is overstretched," the court said. "Any attempt to discriminate against women students would raise [the] serious risk of being frowned upon in society." -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
