The owners of the PG asked to vacate the rooms.

Will all the PGs be closed down in Chandigarh?

The Chandigarh government is now alert due to the PG fire case in sector 32, Chandigarh in which three girls have died. Therefore, all the paying guest owners have asked their PG tenants to vacate the accommodation. The students staying in paying guests accommodation are now going on protests. Their question is where they are supposed to go if the PGs are shit down. 

Many of the owners have asked them to vacate the rooms, or they can lie that they live on rent if any of the inspection team visits. A students’ union president, Nitesh Sharma says that if the students are asked to leave their PGs and not being given a hostel, then there is no option but to leave their studies and go back home. 

Hostel facilities in city schools, colleges for the students are almost non-existing. Due to the policy constraints on the expansion of hostel capacity. For example, DAV college in Sector 10 has total hostel seats of around 750 students against 9000 students. In the last few years, there are so many students who are coming from other states and countries to study in the city college. 

 “We will seek details from all colleges and take up the matter with the chief engineer for early construction of two hostels in two colleges. We are also coming up with a new hostel under RUSA in PU.” – Rubinderjit Singh Brar, the director of higher and school education, Chandigarh.