Students of the reputed IIT Mumbai institution have begun protests against the banning of cooking chicken, mutton and meat in general. IIT Mumbai is located at Powai, and in a hotel at the civil engineering department of IIT campus, the hotel management has imposed a ban on cooking and serving of meat.
The students of the institution have opposed the decision, stating that the IIT management is forcing a food habit of 10% of the students on the 90% who are non vegetarians. In IIT Mumbai, it has been a practice to serve vegetarian food in ever silver plates and non vegetarian food in plastic plates, since many years. In such a scenario, last month a complaint was raised that several non vegetarian students were seen having non vegetarian food on ever silver plates, following which the students association has come up with a decision.
It was announced that the non vegetarian students eating on silver plates affected the sentiments of vegetarians, and hence it was reiterated to the non vegetarian students not to eat in ever silver plates, following which a hotel has imposed such meat ban.
