Lack of accommodation facilities at Kudmul Ranga Rao hostel dominates SC/ST meet

Social Welfare Department Assistant Director Suneetha said, “Arrangements will be made to accomodate additional number of students, who have applied for Kudmul Ranga Rao girls hostel for backward class, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Kodialbail, in a rented building.”

Replying to a complaint by a dalit leader S P Anand, that there are no adequate facilities for inmates of Kudmul Ranga Rao hostel, at the monthly SCST greivences meet at the City Police Commissioner’s Office here on Sunday, said, during the current academic year, the department had received around 50 additional applications from students belonging to SC/STs and there was a need for a rented building to accomodate them.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, District Social Welfare Officer Santhosh Kumar said there were 128 pre-matric and 136 post-matric students, as against the original intake of 105 and 119 students.In the wake of the department receiving large number of applications seeking admission to hostels, a proposal has been sent to the government for providing accomodation to the applicants in a rented building.

DSS district convener Girish Kumar U K accused, that a  woman lecturer in Puttur had created fake complaint against herself and made it appear that dalit leader Anand Bellare had submitted them for Anand had sought information through RTI, on her regionality, as the woman had got the job on the basis of certificate obtained in Karnataka, while in reality, she hailed from Kasargod in  Kerala.

Prostitution activities in a lodge in Mangaluru and illegal money laundering in Kadri were also put forth in the meeting. A woman from Kulai accused that she was assaulted by her house owners and an atrocity case has been registered at Surathkal police
station.  DCP Sandeep Patil asked people belonging to SC/ST to collect the phone numbers of police officers in their respective places, to receive the followup of their cases.