Tamil Nadu school, college hostels for underprivileged students to be renamed ‘Social Justice Hostels’: CM MK Stalin

In a serious constructing, the Tamil Nadu authorities is going to rename speak-breeze colleges and colleges’ hostels for underprivileged college students as ‘social justice hostels’. Sigh Chief Minister M. Ok. Stalin said that the transfer is geared in the direction of reinforcing the foundations of equality and inclusion, adding that below the DMK rule there may maybe be no form of discrimination, be it gender or caste.

“Faculty and college hostels for college students being operated by a complete lot of departments across Tamil Nadu will henceforth be known as social justice hostels. There won’t be any form of discrimination”, he said.

Stalin urged to PM Narendra Modi to amend the SC/ST names that ended with ’N’ and ‘A’ to obtain replaced with ‘R’ in the files to revive dignity.  Recalling the time when he presented in the speak assembly that the time frame ‘colony’ is typically feeble to refer a particular caste therefore it needs to be eliminated from the respectable files as it has transform “a symbol of dominance, a symbol of untouchability and a slang observe” and he presented that “steps may be taken to remove this observe from authorities documents and public domain”.

He moreover mentioned that a authorities expose became issued on behalf of the Faculty Training Department on June 25th that had significant measures to forestall caste and neighborhood-based conflicts and differences amidst college college students to form harmonious virtues in them.

Following a overview by a price chaired by retired Excessive Court docket Justice Ok. Chandru, the speak authorities adopted a complete lot of suggestions geared in the direction of mitigating caste-based conflicts in colleges. The associated price, established particularly to take care of this scenario, proposed a complete lot of measures, collectively with the removal of caste-connected prefixes and suffixes from college names.

1,Seventy 9,568 college students across 2,739 authorities hostels across Tamil Nadu are breeze by Adi Dravidar and the tribal welfare Department, moreover Backward Classes and Minority Welfare Department.

BJP leader and union minister L Murugan requested: “Is it sufficient if the hostels for SC and ST college students are named as social justice hostels.”

“Did the chief minister consult with any of these hostels,” the minister of Sigh for Files and Broadcasting requested.

Talking to newshounds right here, he said if Stalin had exact ache for the hostel college students, then he would allocate funds and toughen the products and services.

“The executive minister is staging a serious farce. He's attempting to fool each person by naming the hostel for SC and ST college students as social justice hostel. When I became Deputy Chairman of the SC Price, I visited every hostel,” Murugan said.

All the map in which by his consult with, he stumbled on that the hostels had been ‘wretched’ and college students had a foul ride. Stalin should consult with the hostels in Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP is ruling, to gaze the extent to which the products and services had been provided.

“He should consult with the hostels in Karnataka and Telangana. There are now not any total products and services in Tamil Nadu….closing week, the college students of the Chennai Law Faculty took to the streets to lisp against wretched prerequisites at their hostel,” Murugan said.

The Central Minister alleged that the DMK became talking about social justice despite untouchability soundless existing in many villages in the speak.

BJP’s aged speak president Ok Annamalai said in a submit on the social media platform ‘X’ that the authorities hostels had been in a speak of disrepair and collapse due to lack of correct maintenance.

Students comprise time and all yet again complained that quality food and wise ingesting water are now now not provided in the hostels, he said. Annamalai alleged that the DMK authorities has been returning the funds provided by the Centre for the constructing of the Adi Dravidar neighborhood every 12 months, without spending on bettering Adi Dravidar colleges and hostels.

“Changing the title of the hostels is mere publicity. The DMK authorities has now now not spent even one per cent of its expenditure on advertising and marketing for the welfare of faculty students,” he alleged.

NTK chief coordinator Seeman, who flayed Stalin, requested him to first dispute what social justice supposed and then title the hostels.

“Social justice hostel is mere rhetoric. Social justice will prevail simplest after dignity is restored to folks who had been ostracised and denied alternatives,” he said.

(with PTI inputs)