Shift hostel to better building, Minister instructs Social Welfare Department

Morarji Desai Residential School at Shantigrama in Hassan taluk, has been functioning out of a private godown as construction of its own building remains incomplete. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Following complaints of a lack of basic amenities at Morarji Desai Residential School, a government residential school, functioning from a rented building in Shantigrama in Hassan taluk, Excise Minister K.M. Shivalinge Gowda, who is also the Minister-in-charge of Hassan district, has directed officers of the Social Welfare Department to shift the school to a better building at the earliest. The school, which has 172 students, including 80 girls, has been functioning out of a private godown as construction of its own building remains incomplete. For the last four years, the school has been ho