Students bear the brunt

Sangam Dutta,Overall incharge of hostel admissions at the Government College for Girls (GCG),Sector 11,said,“In the last couple of days,I have come across many such cases where students are requesting hostel allocation,explaining that they are facing difficulties in finding PG accommodations here.”

The GCG in Sector 11 has received 1058 applications for hostel accommodation,while its capacity for first year students is 165.

In GCG in Sector 42,about 373 first year students have applied for 90 hostel seats.

Meanwhile,the hostel admissions in PU are under progress. Yet,the fact remains that the average capacity of the university hostels is limited to 500 seats each wherein less than half of the seats are allocated to first year students.

A number of PG accommodation owners,specifically in Sector 35,are panic-striken ever since the administration has sealed one of the houses in the Sector for running the PG service illegally.

They are asking the ‘guests’ to either vacate the floors or pay the floor rent jointly in order to pose themselves as tenants.

A second-year student at PU,living in Sector 35,said on condition of anonymity,“We are a total of five girls living in two rooms. Individually we pay Rs 3000 each with facility of coolers and cooking gas. Now our landlords are asking us to sign a one-year agreement for paying the floor rent jointly. But we all need to be independent.”

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