{"id":3225,"date":"2025-11-06T17:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:29:28","slug":"gmc-handwara-students-demand-hostel-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/gmc-handwara-students-demand-hostel-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"GMC Handwara students demand hostel facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Nov 06:\u00a0<\/strong>Students of Government Medical College (GMC) Handwara staged a sit-in protest on Thursday, demanding immediate hostel accommodation, accusing the administration of ignoring repeated appeals.<\/p>\n<p>The protesting students, mostly from the second-year batch said they have been forced to live in costly private rentals with poor living conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Terming hostel accommodation a basic necessity, the protesting students carried placards reading \u201cAccommodation for all\u201d and \u201cA room for every dream\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The students said they are living six to a room, facing constant issues with water and electricity. \u201cIt was understandable not to have hostels in the initial phase, but we are in the second year now and still without accommodation,\u201d a student said.<\/p>\n<p>They said repeated pleas to the college administration have gone unheard. \u201cWe have been facing these issues for a year. It\u2019s winter now and it&#8217;s difficult to survive without proper facilities,\u201d another protester said.<\/p>\n<p>Students also cited an order dated May 21, 2025, which directed officials to arrange a building for hostel purposes. \u201cThe order was issued months ago, yet the hostel was allotted to the junior batch while we were left out&#8221;, the students alleged.<\/p>\n<p>They said the lack of hostels has hit students from economically weaker sections the most. \u201cHow can a student from a poor family afford Rs 10,000 per month on rent?\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, MLA Handwara Sajad Lone visited the protesting students and assured them of a solution within two months. \u201cIf the administration fails to provide the facility within the time frame, you can come and stay at my home,\u201d he told the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my promise, if authorities do not act, come straight to my home and reside there,\u201d Lone added<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Nov 06:\u00a0Students of Government Medical College (GMC) Handwara staged a sit-in protest on Thursday, demanding immediate hostel accommodation, accusing the administration of ignoring repeated appeals. The protesting students, mostly from the second-year batch said they have been forced to live in costly private rentals with poor living conditions. Terming hostel accommodation a basic necessity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}