Northeastern students to have a new hostel at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

New Delhi: Good news for meritorious students of northeast India who goes to New Delhi for higher studies! The new government has new schemes and better news for the students going for higher studies in Delhi as a new hostel is to be built particularly for the northeastern students at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Union Minister of State (Independent charge) Development of the North Eastern Region (DoNER) made this announcement recently.

With hundreds of students from the northeastern states aiming at pursuing higher studies in the prestigious colleges of the Delhi University along with the Jawaharlal Nehru University, there is nothing unusual to see most of them taking lots of pain while chasing their dreams. Sometimes there is a shortage of proper housing facilities and miscellaneous other issues which often posses as a hurdle to their educational venture. Hence, it is in keeping with the problems faced by the students of the region, the government has come up with this good news.

As per reports, there will be 224 rooms in the new hostel with a capacity to accommodate 424 students. Moreover, there will be another 24 rooms which will be assigned to the differently-abled students.

It has also been known that there will be an allotment of equal rooms for both boys and girls.

The Union minister further stated that a fund of Rs. 11 crore has been released for the implementation of this project.

With the cut-throat competition among the students coming from all over the country to study at the University of their dreams, this news of a new hostel for the northeastern students surely will please them. As the Jawaharlal Nehru University is one of the pioneering educational institutes in India and in the world, this is obvious for the students to be disappointed for not getting to study in the university just because of the shortage of hostel facilities.

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