Free Hostel Facility For Around 1,050 Females From SC Group & Marginalized Sections

Around 1,050 females from the SC group and marginalized segments of society studying in administrative secondary and higher secondary educational institutions will be offered free hostel facilities.

As per a press report, around 21 hostels for females in educationally backward sections of eight regions in Punjab had been accomplished.

These blocks are situated regions of the Patiala, Bathinda, Fazilka, Mansa, Ferozepur, Muktsar, Sangrur and Tarn Taran.

A spokesperson for the Education Department stated that the hostels had been set up at a cost of more than Rs 11 crore.

The facility is being offered as most of girl pupils of backward regions are not capable of completing higher school education because of financial constraints.