IIT-Bombay hostel asks students eating non-vegetarian to use separate plates

“I am getting complaints from many students who want students who eat non-vegetarian food to use separate plates. Therefore, this is a request to all non-veg eaters, to please only use the tray type plates meant specially for non-veg dishes during dinner. Please do not use the main plates for non-veg dishes,” said the email.

Clarifying its position, the mess council in a statement said that the email was only sent to restate a rule which is already in place and insisted that it was not meant to offend anyone.

“For years, non-vegetarian food has been served in a separate plate and we only asked students to maintain the rule. This was not meant to offend anyone,” a council member said.

Enraged by the order, some IIT-ians took to social media, alleging segregation. A student also claimed the issue could be part of “a right wing agenda” to push for a vegetarian diet. “For the last several years, separate counters are kept for veg, non-veg and Jain food and nobody ever complained about it,” he said.

With PTI inputs

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