BHOPAL: First the lecturers and professors, then the students. Teachers in the Sarojini Naidu College here in the Madhya Pradesh capital have been instructed not to wear jeans, T-shirts or salwar-kameez suits during their duty hours. A circular has been pinned on the college notice board that forbids women teachers from wearing anything else other than sarees.“Yes, it is now compulsory for us to wear sarees to work,” a professor in the college said on grounds of anonymity. “But the trouble didn't start with us. This imposition has been made on us because the next step would be to ban jeans for students.”To discipline students into wearing proper clothes, teachers have been made the initial targets. If women teachers have to drape a saree every morning, male teachers will also have to change their attire to a more formal pair of trousers and proper shirts. Sources in the college said that male teachers had been instructed not to wear anything casual including T-shirts, jeans and sports clothes.According to the professor, the administration is peeved not with teachers but more with students. ``This is a girls college and our students have started wearing low-waist jeans with spaghetti strap tops. When they sit, the jeans go even lower. It may be fashion for young girls to wear these clothes. However, for the faculty including some male professors, it becomes distasteful to see our students have little respect for teachers and the college, our source explained.“In Bhopal, college teaching staff generally do not wear casual clothes to work. Women teachers don’t wear jeans. They wear salwar-kameez which will no longer be permitted in Sarojini Naidu College.”Speaking to reporters, Deepika Niroliya president of the college Public Participation Committee explained: “Some of the teachers had started wearing casual clothes to college. Wearing salwar-kameez, teachers looked so young that it was difficult to distinguish between students and the faculty. A dress code signifies discipline. From the next semester, students will be made to follow a dress code.”