Students suffer due to lack of hostels

ISLAMABAD: For better education and career opportunities students who come from Chitral and other far-flung areas to Rawalpindi and Islamabad are facing immense residential problems in the twin cities.
Most of the students hail from the middle class and have to face financial problems due to increase in rents of accommodations.
They get admission in different universities but most of these institutions have no hostel facility to accommodate them.
The students especially females face hard times to find accommodation and having no other solutions reside in filthy and unhygienic private hostels.
Besides residential problem, they also get unhygienic food. Some students hire residential quarters and flats but despite paying the rent at will of the owners they have to face their misconduct as well. The owners usually threaten them to vacate the house in case of any petty difference.
In the absence of any rules and regulations to regulate the house rent in the twin cities, the owners increase rents whenever they want without any substantive reasons.
The stiudents said improper residence for students was the big barrier in their education. A female student said they were facing more residential problems than male students.--APP