Women students of Allahabad University will be getting a pink hall and pink toilets on New Year, media reports said. The pink common hall has three pink toilets attached to it and can accommodate over 100 students at a time.
The hall is built over an area of 1,200 sq feet, adjacent to the music and Performing Arts department of the Arts faculty.
The decision to build the much-needed facility was taken when a delegation of 15 women students from different departments met the vice-chancellor Prof R.L. Hangloo .
They said that there are usually long intervals between two lectures and there was no comfortable place to sit and relax in the intervening period. There were not even toilets for women in the various faculties and women had to go to the college campus for the facility.
The central university has around 23,000 regular students in its campus, including 7,300 women. However, there are no common halls. The new common hall and pink toilets have been constructed in the Arts faculty because it is the busiest campus of AU with a greater number of female students than those in commerce, science and law faculty campuses.
