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| Lack of hostel, transport facilities expose students to trouble | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 13
Over a hundred Students of Government College of Engineering and Technology are vulnerable to all sorts of trouble due to non availability of transport and hostel facility at their new campus Chak Balwal.
As per the sources, the college management has shifted classes of nine students, three each from Civil, Computer and Electrical streams to the new campus without making available adequate transport facility nor throwing the hostel building open despite being complete in all the respects for the students willing to stay within the campus.
Besides taking heavy toll of their time in reaching to the campus and back home, it costs each student Rs five to six hundred every month, which they pay to the private matador owners, a city based news agency has reported.
Those traveling on motorbikes or other two wheelers are exposed to great risk, as they have to cover 25-kilometer journey through one of the busiest roads entering the city.
The risk involved could be gauged by the fact that only a day earlier a speedy Army Truck crushed a promising student Riyaz Ahmed Khan soon after he came out of the campus near Talsay Morh. Riyaz Ahmed is struggling between life and death in the Intensive Care Unit at Government Medical College Hospital.
"The authorities are not throwing the campus hostel open despite being complete in all the respects and in this situation, students are faced with the huge problems as we are forced to spend a huge sum which we pay as rent for private accommodations and monthly fare to travel the campus" said Dinesh Kumar, a student hailing from a far off village of Kathua District.
He further said that, as the management was in no mood to throw the hostel open despite repeated requests.
"I have a marginal family background and it is becoming very difficult for my parents to by stand the expenses on account of the lodging and transport in addition to the cost involved in professional studies." Said Raj Kumar. |
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