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A protestation was staged connected Wednesday successful beforehand of a government-run Social Justice assemblage hostel for women successful Pudukkottai municipality aft inmates alleged that they were served lone plain atom for respective days owing to a shortage of funds allocated for food.
The territory has 58 Social Justice hostels comprising 53 schoolhouse hostels, 5 assemblage hostels and 2 polytechnic assemblage hostels. More than 100 students are presently residing astatine the women’s assemblage hostel successful the town.
Students alleged that from February 1-4, they were provided lone atom successful the sanction of meals. “For the past 2 months, we person been fixed lone atom and rasam for each 3 meals,” a protesting pupil said, adding that the concern had worsened successful caller days.
Members of the Students Federation of India (SFI) staged a protestation successful beforehand of the hostel, raising slogans and demanding contiguous intervention. Speaking to The Hindu, R. Vasanthakumar, territory caput of SFI, said respective students were attending assemblage without due meals.
He alleged that funds allocated to the hostels had been exhausted by December, resulting successful the non-supply of items listed successful the prescribed nutrient paper for January and February.
Following the protest, officials from the territory medication assured the students and protesters that contiguous arrangements would beryllium made to supply nutrient arsenic per the approved menu. Acting connected the assurance, the protesters dispersed.
A elder authoritative from the territory medication said steps had been initiated to guarantee an uninterrupted proviso of nutrient astatine the hostel and to forestall a recurrence of specified incidents.
