Karnataka - Bijapur
SC, ST hostel students stage dharna
Staff Correspondent
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'Hostel authorities have failed to provide food to us'
'Students may be forced to return to their villages'
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Bijapur: More than 25 students of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes Boys' Hostel in Bijapur city staged a dharna in front of the
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Circle on Thursday evening for the alleged failure
of the hostel authorities to provide food and breakfast to them
regularly.
The students, who staged the dharna under the leadership of Akhila
Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat (ABVP), alleged that the authorities
concerned had not taken any steps to improve quality of food even
after repeated pleas and memorandums submitted to them.
On Thursday morning, cooks at the hostels asked students to have their
breakfast and food outside as the hostel authorities had not received
funds for groceries and foodgrains.
As most of the students residing in these hostels are poor and are
dependant on food provided in the hostel, such students would be
forced to discontinue their education and go back to their villages to
earn their livelihood.
Keeping this in view, the authorities concerned should take action
against the hostel authorities who had failed to serve food to
students regularly.
The students also alleged that the hostel authorities have not taken
any steps to provide safe drinking water, proper toilets, library
facility and other amenities, though funds had been released for the
purpose.
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