Students vacate hostel alleging neglect

Updated on: Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Alleging neglect by authorities, 165 inmates of government-run 'Sevasram' school in Maoist-hit and tribal-dominated Rayagada district of Odisha have left their hostel.

"All the 165 boy students of the Sevasram at Dangasurada have left their hostel on Sunday evening. We are inquiring into the matter", district welfare officer Damodar Meher said.

Out of total 326 students, from Class I to Class X, in the school there were 205 boys and 121 girls. Of them, 165 boys and 100 girls were putting up in the school hostel.

The students alleged they had been writing to the authorities to solve their problems but it had fallen on deaf ears.

Apparently peeved over the alleged neglect, the students put up posters on the school walls and nearby places before leaving the hostel en masse.

Their problems included alleged lack of sanitation and drinking water facility in the hostel leading to health hazards, inadequate teaching staff, non-payment of pocket money, incomplete hostel building for girl students and non-cooperation and misbehaviour of the staff.

The students had drawn the attention of the district collector, sub-collector and block development officer besides the DWO to their problems, Meher said.

The additional district welfare officer (ADWO) and local welfare extension officer (WEO) had gone to the spot to inquire into the matter, Meher said, adding students have apparently gone back to their respective villages.

Students vacate hostel alleging neglect

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