Demand for welfare hostels in urban areas

There was a huge demand for admissions in BC welfare hostels for boys and girls in district headquarters, divisional head quarters and major towns but seats are not being filled up in BC welfare hostels in rural areas in the Adilabad district of Telangana. The same trend is reported from all the districts in the state.

It is also an indication that students are shifting to nearby towns for schooling and college studies in the Adilabad district. In view of this, state government is diverting the seats in hostels in Rural to hostels in urban areas where there is a good demand for the seats.      

A good number of sanctioned seats were lying vacant in the BC welfare hostels located in rural areas due to poor facilities and lack of supervision and majority of the hostels were running rented buildings. This was found during inspection by Dr T. Radha, principal secretary BC Welfare Department, on July 23, 2015.

It was found that there were only 3,020 maintained strength against 4,282 sanctioned strength at 50 BC pre- matric welfare hostels for boys and girls for the year 2015-16 by end of the July,2015 in the district.

There was zero strength at Bejjur and Dasturabad BC welfare hostels for boys and girls respectively against 67 and 80 sanctioned strength and poor admissions in 14 hostels in rural areas out of 50 total hostels in the district. Students strengthen is low in hostels in rural areas when compared t urban areas.

Principal Secretary, BC welfare Dept Dr T. Radha directed to the District BC welfare officers to take steps with the consent of the local MLAs to divert the sanctioned seats in BC welfare hostels in rural areas to hostels in urban areas where there was good demand for the seats from the college students and post matric students.

She also advised the District BC welfare officer to see the possibility of merging nearby hostels and divert the excess boarders strength to hostels in urban areas.     

Skill training for youth from poorer background

Students at NAC training in electrical works in Adilabad

A large number of people mostly youngsters from poor family background have been turning up for the training in plumber and electrician works being offered by the National Academy of Construction (NAC). Those interested also include students who completed intermediate studies.

There is huge shortage of trained plumbers and electricians in the construction field. An officer says the students will get placed in various construction companies just after completing their training.

As many as 45 students from surrounding mandals of Adilabad town were undergoing training in electrician work being offered at STEP office by the experts of NAC.

Training to the new batch of 30 members in Plumbing will be given soon. The officials concerned are providing free lunch to the students undergoing training. Chief executive officer of STEP, Adilabad Venkateswarlu said there was a good demand for electrician and house wiring and plumbing.

K. Rakesh of Laxmipur in Jainad who had been a part of the workshop on electrical works said he had joined the training on seeing that there were no trained electricians in their mandal and observed people were ready to pay good charges if they like the work but there was shortage of trained electricians.