SHAZIA MASOOD
SRINAGAR, Mar 6: Enjoyment, birthday parties, new year parties, parties without any reason, late night gossips with roommates, these are the things that reminds you of the most beautiful period of your life.
It is hostel where strangers become family members. When students spend life’s most beautiful period in a hostel they keep all their good and bad memories with them till death.
For many people, hostel is just a building but for students hostel is building block of memories. When one thinks of a hostel, fun and enjoyment comes to the mind automatically.
But unfortunately, when it comes to the hostels of Srinagar, it is all opposite. That is why, the students who come from different parts of Kashmir to study in Srinagar prefer to rent a room than to live in the hostels due to which their precious time is wasted in cooking and other household work.
A student Fatima who is preparing for NEET 2020, told Kashmir Despatch: “I study under the candle light for almost one month because there is no systematic arrangement of light in the hostel. Further, the recharchable torches distributed by the hostel manager are also useless because of frequent power cuts. They use invertor and within half an hour it stops working and sometimes they use generator for some time.”
“Rice which we get in dinner and lunch contains stone pebbles, and even vermin,” another student, Faiqa shared her opinion with the Kashmir Despatch. “Food given to us is so unhygienic that I suffered from intestinal infections many a times here,” says, another 12th class student, Irtiqa.
A B.E student Danish told Kashmir Despatch, “Any loss to the hostel property means that every student has to pay the cost of the lost product as a penalty rather than an equal share of cost of that lost product.”
Another student Ubaid who is preparing for AIIMS 2020 says, “The fee of the hostels especially in Raj Bagh and Paray Pora is so high that many of the parents have to take loans from the banks.”
Yasir Ahmad who is a manager of a hostel told Kashmir Despatch, “We have provided every possible facility to the students. We distributed torches and we use invertors and when required we use generators during nights so that students would study without any disturbance.”
