‘5000 Hostel Scheme’ for Scheduled Tribes Providing residential facility to ST students has been one of the major flagship programmes of the State Govt for which a special drive has been undertaken to establish 5000 hostels to provide access to 500000 children to complete school education. Inspired by the vision of Hon’ble Chief Minister, Odisha, Shri Naveen Patnaik, these hostels have been contributing immensely to promotion of education among the ST & SC children. Starting from the year 2007 08, 4067 nos. of 100 seated hostel construction has been taken up till May, 2013. These hostels are designed to be provided with facilities like safe piped drinking water, adequate number of toilets and boundary walls. Progress on Construction of Hostels Year No. of No. of Hostels No. of Hostels under Hostels sanctioned construction completed (1) (2) (3) (4) 2007 08 1034 1034 2009 10 1328 290 1038 2010 11 65 52 13 2011 12 1000 597 403 2013 14 640 (out of 1000) Photographs of some of the Hostels are given below: Deomali Boys Hostel, ITDA Koraput
CONSTN OF EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX AT UPPER KUSUMITA IN KEONJHAR BLOCK
Constructed with an estimated cost of Rs.50.00 lakhs under the Scheme Article 275 (I) in ITDA, Ryagada
Jhanjabati Womens Hostel, Rayagada
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Girls Hostel at BJB autonomous College, Bhubaneswar
9 Girls Hostel at Chatikona Educational Complex 10 Setting up of Urban Hostels Complexes In keeping with the objectives of providing best educational opportunities to the students coming from the lower economic rung of ST and SC communities, the Department is coming up with Urban Hostels Complexes to provide opportunities to disadvantaged tribal students across the state to get Public School education. To meet the residential requirement of these students, the department will provide accommodation in the Urban Hostel Complexes in the following Urban locations: Bhubaneswar Berhampur Rourkela The broad objectives of the Scheme are: To provide opportunities to Tribal Children from rural areas to get education from Nursery/ Class I to XII in best of the Public Schools and take benefit of the quality education and facilities provided therein To enable shaping up of the inherent talent of the selected students and expose them to the spirit of competitiveness and excellence To provide them training in Spoken English, Computer Education and life skills to enable them to compete with the best of the talents among peers. To facilitate access for the aspiring meritorious students to the coaching/ tuition facilities for entrance to professional institutions Admitting students in best of the public schools, payment of their admission and tuition fee, providing for dress, books And study material and other miscellaneous charges for completing their study. Students will be covered under the existing schemes of scholarship/ stipend in the prevailing norms. In future, these students will act as Ambassador for their village/ GP/ Block/ District and promote quality education for ST&SC communities in the state The students shall be selected from the tagged districts to the proposed 3 Urban Education Complexes keeping in view the district quota. The applications will be screened and shortlisted on the basis of the above mentioned eligibility criteria at the district level. Sr. Location of Hostel Strength Functioning Status No 1 Pokhriput, 300 Work Under Progress Bhubaneswar 2 Kalinga Vihar, 300 Work Under Progress Bhubaneswar 3 Berhampur 300 Hostel is functional
4 Rourkela 300 Work to be started. Hostel is operating from an existing hostel of the Deptt. The details of the no of units and proposed projection of boarder students are given in the following table: Sl Name of No of Year wise projection of children in each location Location hostel 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 per 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 location 1 Bhubaneswar 5 750 875 1000 1250 1500 2000 2 Rourkela 1 35 125 150 200 250 300 350 400 500 3 Berhampur 1 140 165 190 225 260 300 350 400 500 Total no of children in all 175 290 340 1175 1385 1600 1950 2300 3000 locations *with projected increased strength of boarders, additional hostels will be required in all three mentioned locations (5 in Bhubaneswar and 1 each in Rourkela and Berhampur) Architectural Plan of Urban Hostel Complexes coming up in Bhubaneswar Urban Hostel Complex at Pokhariput, Bhubaneswar 20 Urban Hostel Complex at Kalinga Nagar, Bhubaneswar (300 Capacity)