Hyderabad: The Telangana government has rolled back a controversial order which barred married women from applying for admissions to the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Degree Colleges for Women.
The rollback comes after CNN-News18 highlighted the notification which said applications were invited only from "unmarried" women. The government had issued the order citing that married women will be “distraction” for the other girls when their husbands or in-laws will visit them in college.
The decision had come under fire from women's organisations, activists and opposition parties.
V Sandhya, president of the People's Organisation for Women told CNN-News18, "We strongly condemn such notification. It's a patriarchal and discriminatory decision. The government admits to child marriages but have failed to eradicate it and taking imposing such restrictions.”
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