The Basava Seva Samsthe here has opened a new hostel - Madalambike Girls Hostel- for poor girls to enable them to pursue studies after SSLC.
With an intake of 50 students, the admission will be made purely on income-cum-merit basis.
Hostel Secretary M B Ambalgi said admission was not necessarily for Lingayat students although priority will be given to poor girls from the community. Those who believed in Basava philosophy will be given admission in the hostel, he added.
The hostel was inaugurated by veteran journalist Patil Puttappa who lauded the efforts made by the Basava Seva Samsthe to facilitate poor girl students to pursue their higher studies. He said a number of girl students particularly from rural areas would discontinue education after SSLC as they do not have proper facilities to pursue their studies.
Patil Puttappa flayed the recent trend of modern women to work overtime for earning more money at the cost of their own health. “Whatever they earn, they will spend most of it on their treatment”, Puttappa quipped.  He wanted working women to give utmost importance to their health.
Presiding over the function Samsthe President Shankargouda Police Patil called upon poor girls to take benefit of the hostel facilities to come up in their life. Secretary M B Ambalgi  Dr B H Purantagi, M.G.Biradar, S ,B Patangi and others were present on the occasion.