433 residential schools under Minority dept: Zameer Ahmed khan

Bengaluru, 02 Jan 2019 [Fik/News Sources]:  Food and civil supplies Minister B.Z Zameer Ahmed Khan said that total 304 hostels and 129 residential schools were functioning under the Minority Welfare department in the state.

Responding to a question from K Abdul Jabbar at the legislative council here on Tuesday, he said that 19 pre-metric boys hostels, 28 girls hostels, 159 post matric boys hostels, 98 girls post matric hostels, 95 Morarji Desai Residential schools, five Muslim residential schools were there in the state and Rs 2.5 lakh annual income limit was fixed for interested students to get admission into hostels, he said.

If the hostel students met accidental deaths, the family of such students would get Rs 2 lakh compensation, he said.