Kolkata's Bethune College lets you choose humanity as a religion. Twitter lauds the decision

Kolkata's Bethune college allows students to chose humanity as a religion in their online admissions form. Twitter is touched by the step and wants more universities to follow the path.

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New Delhi,UPDATED: Jun 1, 2019 18:44 IST

Asia's oldest women's college, Bethune College in Kolkata has taken a step that no one saw coming. The admissions commitee of the college has intorduced, 'humanities' as an option for the students to chose in the religion section.

The online admissions form has seven other options to chose from in the religion section. These seven options apart from humanities are Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Christian and others.

Bethune college admissions form

Mamata Ray, Pricipal of Bethune college in an interview to The Millenium Post said, "We have realised that some students are reluctant to mention their religion in the admission form. We appreciate their views as we feel that 'Humanity' is the true religion of mankind. So we have deliberately kept this category in the religion section. It was an unanimous decision on the part of our admission committee."

This step by the college moving towards a more 'humanitarian' approach is seen as a welcome move by students.

Not only Bethune College but also Acharya Praffula Chandra College has humanity option in their religion category.

Twitterati is thouroughly impressed with this step taken by Bethune college and social media is flooded with posts praising the college.

Bethune College in Kolkata has included Humanity’ as an option in the Religion’ section of the college admission forms...

Proud to be a Bengali....what a great steps ranjan chakraborty (@ranjanchakrabor) June 1, 2019

Well done Bethune College. Humanity is the true religion. Waiting for the day when there will be no column for religion. #humanity #humanitywithheart #religion #religioncolumn #India #indian #Respect #CollegeStudent #bethunecollege #Kolkata #kolkatacollege #proudmoment pic.twitter.com/cpSPx9Sb8P HEMANT SINGH (@hemantsingh0_) June 1, 2019

Admission form in Kolkata's Bethune College lets You choose "Humanity"As a Religion

Humanity above all

A big step..Way to Go..
Hope others follow this..#humanity #India #love #life pic.twitter.com/nmylQIngTj PhoenixJomon (@phoenixjomon) June 1, 2019

Bethune College in Kolkata includes Humanity’ as an option in the Religion’ section of the college admission form. Bethune is established in 1879, which is Asia's first ever women's college. Great move! pic.twitter.com/XX4rMRlNc7 Suchi Soundlover (@suchiseetharam) June 1, 2019

This is a part of the application form of Bethune College, Kolkata.
Hope, others will follow this. pic.twitter.com/4J16kSSYsO Anil kumar (@Kothapallyanil2) May 31, 2019

Well done Bethune College for adding "Humanities" in religion column in your admission forms!! pic.twitter.com/yEc3IxC4BD Debraj Roy (@debraj_speaks) May 31, 2019

Humanity is the biggest religion.
In a bid to promote this message, Bethune College in #Kolkata included Humanity’ as an option in the Religion’ section of the forms.

And I cannot keep calm as people in my city are also slowly recognizing the need for humanity over religion. pic.twitter.com/q2r0ciqgTI Apolina De (@apolina_de) June 1, 2019

Bethune College in Kolkata, India now allows HUMANITY as a religion in its admission forms. A great leading examplehttps://t.co/v1ZI84u8qL Arijit Mukhopadhyay (@thisisarijit) May 31, 2019

In a move that's first of it's kind, Bethune College in Kolkata becomes India's first educational institution to introduce 'Humanity' as a religion in it's admission portal. Way to go! Souvik Roy Moulick (@SouvikRM10) May 31, 2019