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BANGALORE: A civil rights group fears that a boys’ hostel for Dalit students, situated on prime land in Anekal, could become a sitting duck for land-grabbers. The hostel, which provides lodging for Dalit boys studying in the adjoining Government Pre-University College and Degree College, will have no students in the coming academic year. This is because the college has been converted into a women’s college from 2007-08. Moreover, not a single I PUC resident of the hostel cleared the exams in March or the supplementary exams held recently. “There appears to be a calculated attempt by vested interests to grab the 11 acres of prime land on which the hostel is situated,” alleged Swabhimani Dalit Shakti convener Shivalingam. Addressing a press conference here, Mr. Shivlingam said a fact-finding committee, headed by the People’s Democratic Forum (PDF) representative Nagari Babaiah, felt that there should be an inquiry into the circumstances leading to the failure of all the I PUC residents of the hostel and the conversion of the coeducation college into a women’s college. Out of the 50 students of the hostel during the academic year 2008-09, 18 were I PUC students. “All of them have failed not only in the main exams. The remaining students were in their final year of the degree course,” he said. “Now that the I PUC students have failed, they can no longer continue in the hostel,” he said. The Anekal Town Municipality had disconnected drinking water supply to the hostel, which is run by the Social Welfare Department, in September 2008. “When we inquired about this, the municipality authorities told us that the building is illegal,” Mr. Shivalingam said.
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