While the Union government champions slogans like the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, the ground reality is that a UP government hostel built for scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) girls in Nandgram, Ghaziabad, never properly materialised beyond the paperwork. 

The UP government’s Scheduled Caste-Scheduled Tribe Hostel in Nandgram, Ghaziabad, was inaugurated on January 15, 2011, during the tenure of former Chief Minister Mayawati. However, the girls’ hostel remains vacant. While some students were accommodated toward the end of Mayawati's term, “they could stay for only a few months before relocating to another hostel in Sahibabad due to poor security and the absence of basic........

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