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Pinjra Tod
Pinjra Tod (English: break the cage) is an on-going women's rights movement in New Delhi. It was triggered by a notice issued in Jamia Milia Islamia University by the provost in June 2015, which prohibited 'night-outs' (staying outside their hostel) for women hostellers. The movement began as a Facebook page, where students and hostellers posted their experiences and grievances with landlords, hostel wardens, college authorities, and security personnel. This culminated in an online petition to Swati Maliwal, the Chairperson for the Delhi Commission of Women, which asked the DCW to investigate the discriminatory and sexist rules across colleges and universities in Delhi.[Insert link here referring to the petition] The movement began gaining attention

Since then, Pinjra Tod has continued to agitate around issues such as restriction of women's mobility and unequal access to resources that support higher education, through social media, online petitions, jun sunwais (public meetings) and college-to-college campaigning, as well as through 'guerilla tactics' like street graffiti.