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Assembly panel finds BC hostel facilities `poor'

Staff Reporter

Officials pulled up; Collector promises remedial measures

NO EXPLANATIONS?: Chairman of House panel on BC Welfare M. Hanumantha Rao inspecting drinking water storage in a hostel in Anantapur on Tuesday.

ANANTAPUR: The Andhra Pradesh State Legislative Assembly Committee on Backward Classes Welfare has castigated the district administration for poor facilities in BC welfare hostels.

During a review meeting with the district officials here on Tuesday the panel brought poor maintenance of buildings, drinking water problem and irregularities in supply of bed sheets to the inmates to the notice of the district administration.

Chairman of the committee and Mangalagiri legislator M. Hanumantha Rao said that the house panel would review the implementation of welfare schemes for BCs by the State Government and report the shortcomings.

District Collector D. Kadmiel said that the administration would supply bed sheets to the students with the help of non-governmental organisations and would also tackle the drinking water problem on priority basis.

Earlier, District BC Welfare Officer Sanjay Prabhakar explained to the house panel that 14,207 students were staying in 92 hostels. On an average Rs. 338 each per month was being spent on the students till class 7 and Rs. 412 per month on students in class 10.

The committee wanted the administration to give preference to the students of Government colleges in sanction of scholarships.

It also recommended financial assistance to artisans to bring a change in the lives of BC communities. Welfare and development schemes for weavers, land development and

land distribution to BCs were also explained by the officials concerned. The panel also reviewed implementation of the rule of reservation to BCs in appointments.

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