Accommodation remains a persistent problem for students gaining admission to two government arts and science colleges in Coimbatore city

For candidates securing admittance to the 2 authorities arts and subject colleges successful Coimbatore city, accommodation remains a large issue.

While a conception of the candidates negociate to summation introduction into payment hostels for Adi Dravida and Backward Class students tally by authorities departments, and avail the payment of escaped nutrient and stay, a bulk are near with nary different enactment but to unafraid backstage accommodation that is mostly pricey.

For an intake of 1,700 positive students successful the first-year UG programmes, the Government Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Coimbatore, has received implicit 37,000 applications this year, and the lone Government Arts and Science College for Women successful the full Coimbatore portion astatine Puliakulam successful the metropolis has implicit 11,000 applicants for implicit 400 seats successful the UG programmes.

The hostel successful the Government Arts and Science College (Autonomous), Coimbatore, has a capableness to admit lone 350 students, and the remainder are constrained to find backstage accommodation entailing hefty expenditure that is beyond the means of their families belonging to debased socio-economic strata, according to a elder module member.

The Government Arts and Science College for Women astatine Puiyakulam has nary hostel, and up to 70 students are capable to unafraid admissions into payment hostels. Private accommodation is the lone enactment for the remainder of the students.

Faced with the concern of uncovering accommodation astatine abbreviated notice, parents of students gaining introduction into these 2 colleges person their task chopped out, and are presently learnt to beryllium connected a house-hunting spree for rental accommodation successful localities successful a radius of 5 to 10 km.

Normally, the students are required to walk not little than ₹5,000 per month. For these students, the outgo of acquisition turns retired to beryllium overmuch lesser than the expenditure incurred towards accommodation, rue parents.

The economical advancement successful Coimbatore is what draws the students successful droves to the authorities arts and subject colleges, with the anticipation of uncovering par-time jobs to money their studies.

The persisting predicament of the students could beryllium addressed by the State authorities efficaciously by making peculiar budgetary allocation and establishing hostels with ample capacities with proviso for subsidised enactment and food, teachers who witnesser the travails of the students connected a daily-basis emphasise.