Room Rage

Delhi University is in a quandary. A student has threatened to commit suicide it fails to build more hostels for its students.

Delhi University is in a quandary. Praveen Kumar Singh, a student doing his Masters in Buddhist Studies at the university, has threatened to commit suicide if the university fails to keep its promise of building more hostels for its students. Singh has set the university a deadline of 14 February 2014 to commit to the hostels. That is also the day when its annual campus festival Antardhwani begins. The university has 70 colleges affiliated to it, with almost 200,000 students in all. But it has accommodation for only 6,000 of those students. Proposals to build more hostels remain pending. University officials refused to comment on the issue.

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