IGIMS removes word 'virgin' from marital status declaration form after controversy

IGIMS had landed in a controversy over its marital declaration form, which asked its employees whether they are virgin or not.

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New Delhi: Patna's Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) has removed the word 'virgin' from marital status declaration form after a controversy erupted. recently. It issued new form. IGIMS had landed in a controversy over its marital declaration form, which asked its employees whether they are virgin or not.

The controversial marital declaration form had some really awkward questions. The employee was supposed to fill up details like whether he/she is a bachelor or widower or a virgin! Men had to declare whether they have only one wife or more. Women employees had to declare whether their husbands have only one wife or more. Speaking to ANI, the college medical superintendent Manish Mandal had said that the term virgin did not imply the literal sense, rather it meant unmarried. Mandal had added, "IGIMS follows the rules and regulations of AIIMS which follow the Central Services' rules. The format has imbibed the terms married, widower and virgin." "These rules are made by the government only and they have the authority to change it. This rule is not formed by IGIMS or the state but the constitution. If they change it, we will also change," he had said.