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University Grants Commission To Assist Institutes In Building Women Hostels By Granting More Funds
By Sumit Kumar, Section Hostels
Despite the fact that women today constitute one-third of total enrolment in higher education in the country, facilities and infrastructure to bolster their learning continue to remain lacking. And it is this "great dearth of women hostels" that has compelled the University Grants Commission (UGC) to launch a special scheme for construction of hostels during the Tenth Plan.
In what it describes as "a historical decision", the Commission has raised the assistance amount from Rs 25 lakh to Rs one crore for non-metro cities and to Rs 2 crore for metro cities in order to facilitate and support women's education. The UGC has pointed out that the dearth of hostels is "not only in the institutions exclusively serving women" but in some of the "established, old co-educational institutions of the country, which, in the earlier decades, largely catered to men students when there was little mobility for women to seek education in places other than their own residential locations". The commission's decision taken in June this year is aimed at "providing hostels and other infrastructural facilities to achieve the goal of enhancing the status of women and harness the potential available for the development of the society at large, as also to bring about gender equity and equal representation of women". Click on "Full Story" for more...
It was mentioned that while "Women, today, constitute one-third of the total enrolment. In fact, their enrolment is growing at a faster rate in several states of the country. However, there has not been a commensurate growth of women's hostel facilities for pursuing higher studies".
The Commission will support all eligible universities and colleges for construction of women hostels for providing a residential place for women students, researchers and teachers. Universities and colleges, which come within the purview of the UGC, and are fit to receive central assistance under Section 12(B) of the UGC Act, will be eligible to receive financial assistance under this scheme. Assistance from the UGC under the scheme to colleges and universities and deemed universities will be on 100 percent basis subject to the ceiling prescribed and the Commission will mandate monitoring committees to have an on the spot checking or monitoring of the proposed or approved building projects including women's hostel buildings to know the proper utilisation of funds, quality of construction and timely completion of the project.
Source: Smriti Kak Ramachandran From Tribune News Service
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