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The Department of Backward Classes Welfare, with a existent vacancy of 8,792 including posts of wardens and cooks, was forcing their unit with further responsibilities, said officials of the department.
During a reappraisal gathering conducted by the Legislature House Committee connected Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare successful Shivamogga connected Wednesday, officers pointed retired that of the full 16,105 sanctioned posts, lone 7,313 posts person been filled. The hostels and residential schools tally by the section are facing unit shortages, they said.
“Among 1,297 posts of wardens for boy’s hostels, 863 are vacant. Similarly, successful lawsuit of wardens of 829 ladies’ hostels, 402 posts stay vacant. In Shivamogga district, determination are 137 hostels tally by the department. However, determination are lone 62 wardens. To negociate enactment with the disposable staff, each warden has been entrusted with the work of overseeing 2 oregon much hostels,” officers informed the House committee, headed by A.R. Krishnamurthy.
Members of the committee, including Mr. Krishnamurthy, maintained that assigning 1 idiosyncratic to negociate much than 1 hostel was not acceptable and not successful the champion involvement of the students. Mr. Krishnamurthy pointed retired that successful immoderate places, cooks had been fixed the complaint of warden, weakening the administration.
The committee besides pointed retired the shortage of seats successful hostels for eligible candidates. In the existent world year, much than 1.5 lakh students belonging to backward classes could not unafraid hostels, it said.
The officers told the committee that astir 50% of the students, who missed the hostel facility, bask the payment of the Vidyasiri scheme, nether which each pupil gets ₹1,500 per month. However, the remainder would not person the facility, fixed the allocation of ₹105 crore for the scheme. For the Social Welfare Department, applicants belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe assemblage are accommodated arsenic per the argumentation that ensures hostels for each applicants.
The members of the committee felt that each the applicants of backward classes should besides person the hostel accommodation. “It is simply a argumentation matter. The committee volition urge the authorities to guarantee hostel for each the applicants,” Mr. Krishnamurthy said. He besides stressed the request for the opening of caller hostels to accommodate much students.
Dhananjay Sarji, MLC and a subordinate of the committee, stated that galore assemblage and assemblage students look occupation owed to the hold successful admittance to hostels and indispensable marque alternate arrangements for months earlier getting admission. The officers responded that the admittance to post-metric hostels hap 3 times a year, based connected pre-university, degree, and post-graduate admittance timetables.
“We connection seats to students of each courses. However, the institutions and universities offering courses bash not travel a azygous calendar of events and admissions instrumentality spot passim the year. Hence, it is hard to reserve seats for students of a circumstantial people successful each hostel and behaviour abstracted admittance processes for them,” the officers explained.
