Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Aug 30: To lodge protest against delay in handing over Gaddi-Sippi Hostel to the college authorities, Gaddi Sippi Students Union of Government Degree College (Boys) Udhampur today took out a rally.
The protest rally began from Government Degree College (Boys) Udhampur and culminated at Deputy Commissioner Office Udhampur. The rally was participated by the students of Gaddi Sippi tribal communities, who were raising slogans against State Government and district administration for inordinate delay in handing over the newly constructed Gaddi Sippi Hostel building at Udhampur to Government Degree College (Boys) Udhampur and making the hostel functional for beneficiaries.
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The protest was held under the leadership of Sardar Singh, president Gaddi Sippi Students Union of Government Degree College (Boys) Udhampur. He said that the building of newly constructed Gaddi Sippi hostel in the premises of Govt. Degree College Boys Udhampur was inaugurated by the then Minister of Tribal Affairs Choudhary Zulfkar Ali in 2015 but the Hostel is still not made functional despite so many requests made by the community.
He added that the under privileged down trodden students of Gaddi Sippi tribes in district Udhampur come from far flung hilly and inaccessible terrains and they desperately need hostel facility at District Headquarter to continue their studies.
On this occasion State President All J&K Gaddi Sippi Tribes Welfare Association Parveen Jaryal served an ultimatum of 15 days to the Government and district administration for handing over the hostel to the authorities of the college and make it functional.
Later, a memorandum was also submitted by the students to the district administration in support of their demand.
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