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Rs 1.2 b for 60 hostels to house 12,000 undergrads
View(s):Cabinet has approved Rs 1.2 billion to construct 60 hostels within all 15 State universities in the country, Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake said. Each building will be four storied and house 200 students.
The project, to be undertaken by the Higher Education Ministry along with a Singapore Company, is expected to be completed in two years.
A new method will be adopted to build the hostels to facilitate speedy construction.
Each hostel will consist of rooms on a twin-sharing basis, a TV room, a kitchen, reading room as well as a rooftop for social gatherings.
- Damith Wickramasekera