Can marry off ugly girls, get furniture, vehicles: Textbook lists as merits of dowry

New Delhi: Furniture, appliances like refrigerators and vehicles besides a share of parental property for girls listed as 'merits of dowry' reportedly in a Textbook of Sociology for Nurses.

Now viral image of the page from the said to be Textbook has also despicable and loathsome statement under the subtitle of 'Merits of Dowry'. The statement read that the dowry system could help marry off ugly looking girls.

In a country where women being assaulted, mentally harassed, killed and driven to suicide, due to this banned regressive system, a lesson on the benefits of dowry has widely been criticised.

Social media wondered what messages the textbook giving to the youngsters in society through materials like this. Shockingly, the supposed reading material for the nursing students also claims it has been prepared as per the Indian Nursing Council syllabus.

One of the social media users who called out the statements in the textbook was Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi. Tagging Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Twitter, she urged the minister to remove such books from circulation that like-content in curriculum is a "shame".

" I request Shri @dpradhanbjp ji to remove such books from circulation. That a textbook elaborating the merits of dowry can actually exist in our curriculum is a shame for the nation and its constitution," her tweet read.

Twitter users have called out the book, saying that its appalling that such books are part of the curriculum for college-level students.