The Students of the Government Nursing School staged a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office, here on Thursday demanding facilities at the students hostel and also release of students’ scholarship.
We have been selected under the District Social Welfare department and hence the department has to provide us facilities. In spite of this the department has not made any arrangements in the last one year to provide us with scholarship, they alleged.
The department gives the students of the private nursing schools food and accommodation. But it is showing step-motherly treatment towards us, they charged. We have come here from different places like Shimoga, Bhadravathi, Sagar including Chitradurga and we are facing untold miseries. With the little money our parents are sending us we have somehow completed first year of training, they said. The officials say that they cannot directly give the student scholarship and it can be given only through officials concerned. But they are deliberately delaying.
Hence in the coming two years they should provide us with hostel facilities and make it convenient for us to pursue our studies, they said. They later submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner.