Rs 28 cr allocated for Northeast hostel in JNU: Dr Jitendra

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, accompanied by Vice Chancellor JNU, Prof. Jagdish Kumar and senior officers, visiting the site of Northeast Students' Hostel in the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on Wednesday.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, accompanied by Vice Chancellor JNU, Prof. Jagdish Kumar and senior officers, visiting the site of Northeast Students' Hostel in the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on Wednesday.

Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Nov 14: Rs.28.3 crore have been allocated for the Northeast Students’ Hostel being constructed by the North Eastern Council (NEC) and the Ministry of Northeast/DoNER in the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The hostel will offer accommodation to nearly 450 students and 24 rooms will be exclusively earmarked for “Divyang” / Specially-abled students.
This was disclosed here today by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh, while speaking to media persons, during his visit to the site of the upcoming hostel in the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He was accompanied by Vice Chancellor JNU, Prof. Jagdish Kumar and senior officers from the administration as well as the engineering department.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, JNU is one of the prestigious universities in the country and out of the total strength of 8,000 to 9,000 students studying in the University, nearly 700 to 800 or around 10% students hail from the North Eastern Region. In other words, he said, the average number of students from each of the eight States of the North Eastern Region surpasses the number of students from several other States of India. It was, therefore, absolutely essential and befitting to provide a cost-effective accommodation for these students and the Ministry of Northeast had come forward to undertake this initiative, he added.
Elaborating further, Dr Jitendra Singh informed that through around 224 double – occupancy rooms in the hostel, the accommodation will be divided almost 50:50 between male and female students, considering the fact that the JNU has the unique characteristic of boys and girls studying in almost equal numbers.
The four-storey Northeast Hostel will come up in over one-and-a-half acre area in the JNU campus, said Dr Jitendra Singh, which would make it a very conspicuous and prominent wing of this prestigious university.

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