Admin fudging students no in seasonal hostels?

Yavatmal:Questions are being raised over the way the state government sponsored ‘Hangami Vastigruha’ or seasonal hostels programme is being run in the district, with some social workers suspecting fudging of student records of the scheme and demanding a probe.Yavatmal is included in the state government sponsored seasonal hostels programme for the children of migrant labourers. The government had launched the project from 2014-15 academic session, aiming to ensure a healthy environment, nutrition and security to the children of the labourers who often migrate from their hometown in search of work.Thus, the ‘Hangami Vastigruha’ programme was launched which would run every year for four months. Yavatmal district too got its first batch of hostels from 2014-15 academic session .
During the first year, there were 23 such hostels in the four tehsils of the district, Digras, Mahagaon, Pusad and Umarkhed. According to the records obtained from the education officer, zilla parishad, Yavatmal, about 1200 students were accommodated in these. During the current academic session (2015-16), the number of hostels has come down to 20 with an intake of 1106 students.
But some feel that these figures have been tampered with. Activists said that though the number of students on paper is high, the actual number of students benefiting from the project is low. “The figures could be as low as 200 students in all the 20 hostels put together,” said Ranvir Tale, a social worker from Pusad.
Government guidelines say that the students should be accommodated in hygienic environment and provided quality meals apart from getting education in a nearby school. Some of the hostels are said to be not following these instructions and not being maintained properly. “Students in certain hostels, like the one in Mahagaon have live near an open drainage near their hostel,” said Vijay Bhore, an educationist and social worker.
The hostels are being run under the supervision of the school local management committee and the heads of the respective schools under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The students are also supposed to get a daily allowance of 42. Vijay Bhore, an educationist and social worker has demanded a probe in the matter. He asked that the nexus between administration, heads of the schools and local committee members must be probed and exposed.
Tale and Bhore claim that authorities, during inspection, arrange students from the adjoining schools and make videos to show the work done in the hostels and also, the students are provided mid day meals from schools, which the hostels show as given by them.
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