‘Ensure basic amenities at govt college’

Coimbatore: A postgraduate student of the government arts college in the city has petitioned the chief minister cell, seeking the CM’s intervention to ensure basic amenities, mainly drinking water and toilet facilities, on the college premises.
The student, M Ganesh, said there were just 10 washrooms and some urinal points for more than 6,000 students in the college and they were not maintained properly. He said the students were often forced to use the washrooms in the nearby buildings, as water was not supplied to the ones in the college regularly. “Similarly, only one of the five drinking water taps is functioning on the college premises. Aren’t drinking water and toilet facilities basic needs to the students,” he asked.
Refuting the allegations, the college authorities said they had been taking all the efforts to provide basic amenities to the students. “Presently, renovation work is also going on at the college,” they said. tnn