Dedicated hostel for girls to come up on Deccan College campus

“Girl students from private institutions of higher learning can also avail the facilities,along with those pursuing studies in government institutes. The detailed guidelines to this effect will be released shortly,” a senior official told Newsline.

He said the government was also expanding hostel facilities for female students with five hostels being set up — one each in Kolhapur,Aurangabad and Amravati and two in Nagpur.

Towards materialising its scheme of increasing girls’ enrollment ratio in higher education,the state government has also approved as many as 171 posts of rectors and other supporting staff for the proposed hostels.

The state government has asked the offices concerned of the joint director (higher education) to submit at the earliest proposals to raise and expand hostel facilities along with rough estimate.

“Scores of girl students give up higher studies due to the absence of safe and proper accommodation at the place of their study. This was found to be a major hurdle in improving their enrollment ratio in higher education. Our scheme of providing dedicated hostel facilities for girls will surely overcome this problem,” an official said.

Ruchira Joshi from Marathwada,who is pursuing her Bachelor of Ayurveda,Medicine and Surgery from a local college,said this scheme would be a boon to many girls who have left their home to pursue higher studies.

“My parents were apprehensive about sending me to Pune. Safe accommodation was their main concern,” she said.