Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) demanded the State government to immediately release scholarships to students of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) hostels, due for the last two years.
The activists took out a procession from Rani Channamma Circle to the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, where they staged a demonstration and submitted a memorandum in support of their demands.
They sought release of additional grants to improve infrastructure in all the hostels run by the departments of Social Welfare and Backward Classes & Minorities in the State, improvement of hygiene and cleanliness, clean drinking water facilities, and opening of more hostels to accommodate the students belonging to the economically weaker sections of society.
The activists also demanded subsidies in tuition fees for all the students belonging to poor families, and proper infrastructure in all government colleges.
Drawing attention towards the lack of lecturers in government pre-university colleges, the ABVP urged that all the vacant posts were filled up at the earliest.
