WIDOWER, BACHELOR OR VIRGIN, ASKS PATNA MEDICAL COLLEGE

PATNA: Patna’s premier autonomous health facility — the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) — wants its employees to declare their virginity at the time of employment.

The marital declaration form, which has existed since the inception of the institute in 1983, expects its employees to declare whether they are bachelor, widower or virgin.

While the newlyappointed health minister Mangal Pandey of the BJP told a news channel that the employees just had to state their “zodiac sign (kanya rashi, or Virgo)” the institute’s medical superintendent said, “In Devanagri unmarried girls are referred to as ‘kunwari kanya’, which, if translated in English, is virgin.”