New JNU hostel to allot 75% rooms to north-east students

A new hostel is going to come up on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in New Delhi, where 75 per cent of the rooms will be allotted to the students from the northeast, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday.
The announcement was made on July 24, 2017, by the Union Minister of State for the Development of North East India Jitendra Singh. He laid down the foundation stone for the new hostel that will be called Barak Hostel after the Barak River in the north-east. Although the construction of the hostel has been pending for up to three years, the minister said that the hostel will most likely be operational after 20 months. The estimated cost of building the hostel will sum up to Rs. 29 crores.Click here:

It will comprise five floors and will accommodate up to 400 students including both boys and girls. Inaugurating the construction site, Singh said that there is a lot that one can learn from the people of north-east India, adding that scholars from the region were enriching the top educational institutions of Delhi with their contributions. He further added that the students of the north-east region are taking admissions in various institutes of Delhi, making them culturally rich regionally diverse. As the people were come together from various regions students can interact and learn various things from them.

Singh also stated that the women of the seven north-eastern states are inspiring and understand the importance of empowerment. He said that women of other states can learn from them as they have to struggle a lot regarding the same. Amongst the prominent personalities present during the ceremony were JNU Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar, Secretary of DONER, five MPs from the region as well as the Secretary of the North-Eastern Council.
 
Source: Internet

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