Indian educator and women's rights activist Mary Roy's school, Pallikoodam in Kerala, has decreed that boys and girls should maintain a distance of one meter from each other. In a school notice released earlier this year, the authorities warned students that "immediate action" will be taken against students if the new rules aren't followed and they receive complaints from parents.

"Boys and girls will behave on the campus with utmost respect towards each other," reads the notice. This "respect" includes being separated from each other by one meter, students of senior classes avoiding friendships with those in lower classes, and "not moving into corners and lonely areas".