Sixteen Backward Classes associations have alleged that the government was neglecting welfare hostels and residential schools in the State, leading to increasing incidents of inmates falling sick and food poisoning due to unhygienic conditions and lack of proper upkeep, resulting even in snake bites.
A student succumbed to snake bite at BC Welfare Boys hostel at Birkur in Kamareddy district on Saturday. Hundreds of hostel inmates were hospitalised in recent weeks due to food poisoning and unhygienic conditions making them fall sick with fever and other health problems.
In a statement issued here on Saturday, National BC Welfare Association president R. Krishnaiah, convenor G. Krishna, executive president Lalkrishna Prasad, N. Venkatesh, V. Ramakrishna, A. Ramkoti, C. Rajender, T.R. Chander, T. Rajkumar, G. Mallesh Yadav, G. Ananthaiah, S. Ashok and others, of different BC bodies said that such incidents had taken place in Adilabad, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Khammam and Warangal, too.
