AP Govt to construct Integrated Complex Hostels

Tirupati, July 11: The Andhra Pradesh government will construct 360 Integrated Complex Hostels (ICH) at a cost of rs 1.50 crore each to house all the SC/ST and backward classes students under one roof all over the state, Tribal Welfare and Development Minister D S Reddya Naik said.

The government had already sanctioned construction of 120 ICHs in the first phase to accomodate 400 students each in one hostel, while 240 such ICHs would be sanctioned this year, he told newspersons after inspecting the newly built Social Welfare school at Renigunta near here yesterday.

To provide better facilities to the SC/ST and BC students, the state government had raised the mess allocation by 25 per cent besides supplying fine quality rice to the hostels through the Civil Supplies Department, he added.

UNI