The Hindu : Other States / Orissa News : ‘Provide better accommodation to foreign students'

The Hindu : Other States / Orissa News : ‘Provide better accommodation to foreign students'

‘Provide better accommodation to foreign students'

Correspondent

The students feel they have been cheated by the State government

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We feel as if we are in exile staying in a dilapidated building, says a student

“The government should restrain itself from further denting the pride of the Millennium city”

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Cuttack: The foreign students of Ravenshaw University who returned last week are reportedly unhappy with the present accommodation provided to them by the State government in Bhubaneswar. The suggestion for relocating these students once again in Cuttack is mounting. The Cuttack Bachao Committee, an outfit comprising intellectuals of the city on Thursday demanded that all the 59 Afghan students who left the city on January 18 for security reasons should be provided proper accommodation by the State government in Cuttack itself. “Cuttack is known worldwide for having a unique universal brotherhood having a strong bond of moral fibre where people from all religions and all regions coexist in peace and harmony. For over one thousand years, the city has provided shelter and livelihood to all those who have come here to settle temporarily or permanently. The people of the city cannot distance themselves from the foreign students who have already stayed here for over one and half years over a small and trivial matter”, said the convener of the outfit Subash Singh on Thursday. The government should find a proper place to accommodate all the foreign students till they complete their ongoing courses in Ravenshaw University here; Singh said adding that the government should restrain itself from further denting the pride of the Millennium city.

Meanwhile, the foreign students who have been provided accommodation at a far-off place from the city in Bhubaneswar feel that they have been cheated by the State government. “We feel as if we are in exile staying in a dilapidated building here in Bhubaneswar which is located at an isolated place. We are also unable to find proper private accommodations here”, said an Afghan student requesting to remain anonymous.