Archive · 28 Aug 2026
Social Justice Hostels Receive Higher Food and Maintenance Funds
The government plans to spend more money on hostels for students from backward and most backward communities.
School students will get more money for food each month or period covered by the allowance.
College students will also receive a higher food allowance.
These increases will cost the department an extra Rs.
32 crore.
Hostels will receive more money for repairs and maintenance.
A new hostel will be opened in Chennai.
Some hostels will get better buildings, equipment, mosquito nets and compound walls.
The minister also announced financial help for 100 people to open modern saloon shops.
Food allowances will rise from Rs. 1,400 to Rs. 1,800 for school hostel students and from Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 2,000 for college hostel students.
The higher food allowances will add Rs. 32 crore in departmental expenditure.
Annual maintenance funding will increase to Rs. 75,000 for school hostels and Rs. 1 lakh for college hostels.
One hundred people will receive Rs. 1.5 lakh each to open modern saloon shops.
The minister announced new hostel buildings, mosquito nets, upgraded hostels and improved equipment for social justice institutions.
- Who
- BC and MBC welfare minister V. Sampathkumar announced the measures for students and institutions serving backward and most backward communities.
- What
- Food allowances and maintenance funds for social justice hostels will increase, alongside several infrastructure and welfare announcements.
- When
- The announcements were made on Thursday during a discussion on demands for grants for the ministry.
- Where
- The announcement was made in Chennai; a new social justice hostel will also be opened there.
- Why
- The measures are intended to provide greater food, maintenance, infrastructure and financial support through the social justice welfare system.
- School hostel food expense
- Raised from Rs. 1,400 to Rs. 1,800 per student.
- College hostel food expense
- Raised from Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 2,000 per student.
- Additional departmental cost
- Rs. 32 crore.
- School hostel maintenance
- Raised from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 75,000.
- College hostel maintenance
- Raised from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 1 lakh.
- Saloon shop assistance
- Rs. 1.5 lakh each for 100 people.
- Infrastructure announcements
- Own buildings for 14 hostels, mosquito nets for 1,238 social justice schools and colleges, and equipment for 960 hostels.