Bilaspur. A case of hostage taking of students has come to the fore in Prayas Residential School of Bilaspur. When the students studying here were about to go to the collector complaining about the conditions, their hostel superintendent took them hostage by locking the hostel from all sides. The students somehow came out by breaking the lock. Then walking 12 kilometers in the scorching sun reached the collector and complained to the collector.
Prayas Residential School is located at Ramtala, Bilaspur. There are two residential schools for boys and girls separately. Admission in Prayas Residential School, which operates from ninth to twelfth, is given on the basis of entrance examination. By keeping the students here, along with school studies, preparations are made for IIT JEE and NEET. The government bears the cost of boarding and lodging of the students. The government has opened Prayas residential school so that the talented children of poor and remote areas can stay and study here. This year, 15 students have been selected in JEE and 22 in NEET from Prayas Residential School. Yesterday the students here reached on foot to meet Collector Saurabh Kumar. The students said that the food served here is of very poor quality. Bread is not served with food. Also insects are found in breakfast. Hostel fans are bad, when asked to get them made, it is told by the hostel superintendent that you people do not have the status to live in an AC cooler.
