OFFENSIVE ORDER ON ‘DECENT’ DRESS CODE

Letter:
India is a democratic country and has got the longest written constitution in the whole world. But sometimes it feels that can we really feel proud of it, specially when an like the Haryana government’s comes in. Recently the Haryana Govt had ordered to maintain dress code in the work place especially for women and termed Saree and Salwar as decent outfits and by disallowing jeans, branded it an indecent outfit. But can one really say the saree can always be termed as a decent outfit especially with the growing trend of fashions in the sector of wearing saree, it can be worn in the most attractive way. People has also agreed that Indian girls looks more attractive when they wear saree, so does our Haryana Govt want to show our Indian ladies in attractive outfit in working sector.
I am not all against the order of Haryana Govt but one should give the freedom to choose what to wear and what to not because decency does not comes by what you wear but how to wear it and carry yourself.
On the other side imposing restriction on what should be wear or not can be termed as a indriect censorship in the freedom of women. India has got a long history of imposing restriction of women and this order can be said as an inclusion on those restrictions.
Shashi Subba
Student of Journalism and Mass Communication, Sikkim University, A Central University established by an Act of Parliament of India, 2007