Another Mess Food Scare: Doon University Students Protest Worm-Infested Meal
Students at Doon University staged a late-night protest outside the Vice Chancellor‘s residence on Sunday after allegedly finding a worm in food served at the hostel mess, with the unrest breaking out just a day before scheduled student council elections.
According to reports, the discovery of the worm in the mess meal sparked immediate anger among students, who gathered and marched to the residence of Vice Chancellor Prof. Surekha Dangwal late into the night, demanding accountability over the university’s food quality and hostel mess management.
Timing adds to the tension
The protest’s timing — the night before student council polls were due to be held — added a political edge to the unrest, with students using the moment to spotlight long-standing grievances over hostel food quality alongside their anger over the specific incident.
University officials had not issued a detailed public statement on the matter or on any planned inquiry into the food quality complaint at the time of these reports.
Part of a wider pattern of mess-food complaints
The incident adds to a string of similar complaints at educational institutions in Uttarakhand and elsewhere in recent months. Students at Doon Medical College in Dehradun made a similar allegation earlier this year, saying they found worms in a vegetable dish served at their hostel mess; the university’s Director of Medical Education ordered an inquiry and warned that strict action would follow against anyone found responsible. Comparable protests over mess food quality have also been reported at Bangalore University and Osmania University in the past year, pointing to a recurring concern around hostel catering standards at Indian universities.
The exact outcome of Sunday’s protest, including whether university authorities have committed to an inquiry or corrective steps, remains unclear as of this report.
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