Rohtak PGI students demand more hostels

The Under-Graduate Students and Interns Association of the Rohtak PGIMS and PGIDS has demanded more hostels at the institutes.

The association has sent a memorandum to the state's Health and Medical Education Minister through Vice-Chancellor of Pt Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences (UHS), Rohtak, in this regard.

The association has pointed out that the new students of the MBBS and BDS courses, including girl students, are facing much difficulty in getting hostels.

"Most of the girl students have to stay at private paying-guest accommodations due to lack of space at the girls' hostels. More students have been allotted rooms than the capacity of the hostels, which affects the studies of the students,” said the association.

As per official sources, a number of girl students of the PGIMS and PGIDS were earlier accommodated in the hostels of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) located nearby, but the MDU authorities have also refused to accommodate them due to space crunch in the past two years.

The process to construct new hostels on the PGIMS campus is under way, but the students have demanded that the construction be expedited.