Delhi University has raised the voice in protest against sexual harassment in the campus. Students want the authorities should take the initiative about the campaign.

Last Friday North Campus witnessed a protest rally by the students in front of vice-chancellors office. Devangana Kalita the final year student from Miranda College said, “We want to make our campus a zero-tolerance zone as far as sexual harassment is concerned. We are not only targeting students and teachers but also the non-teaching staff and even the bantawala on the campus to stop any incident of sexual harassment.”

On Friday, almost 300 students rallied from the Arts faculty with slogans, banners and posters to the office of vice chancellor. The rally was formed by participation of 10 colleges.

A step was taken early this year but the result wasn’t so fruitful. This time students were quite adamant to make their aim successful. Devangana said, “We had prepared a questionnaire and gave it to random students during January to March earlier this year. We found that there was hardly any awareness about sexual harassment. She added, “That’s when we thought of taking our efforts further and sent an open invitation to students to join us.”

The protesting students have started meeting every Tuesday to discuss about how to raise awareness about ordnance XVD. They have also carried several “freedom marches” in the campus last week.