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Islamabad students facing accommodation problems
Islamabad, Jan 12, 2008: Bachelors, students and working women are facing
residential problems due to acute shortage of accommodation facilities in the
twin cities.
Shabbir Hussain, living in a single room in Sector G 6/2
said that the main cause of the accommodation shortage was the lack of bachelor
hostels and proper housing schemes.
He said that he had been facing
residential problem since he landed in the capital in 2003 after completing his
studies.
"In the past five years, I have changed my residence many times
due to the ill attitude of landlords or lack of basic facilities," he
added.
He said that the setting up of more hostels could bring relief to
bachelors who came here from distant areas of the country in search of jobs and
education.
Muhammad Noman, an IT employee, said that rents of rooms and
houses had surged in the last few years due to the unprecedented influx of
students and job seekers in the twin cities. " I am paying Rs 6,000 for a single
unfurnished room and the owner raises rent, 10 percent every year," he
added.
Ramazan, a student, said that due to non-availability of proper
hostel facilities, he had to live in a small room.
"It is quite difficult
for a student to find a reasonable living place at affordable rates," he added.
He said that private hostels had been charging Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000 for a single
bed accommodation adding that these hostels had no proper cleanliness
system.
"I am residing in a small room of a private hostel with three
other girls due to paucity of hostels for girls in the twin cities," said Nida
Khan, an employ of a semi-government organisation.
She said, "We pay Rs
6,000 per head to the hostel management who provide two time meals and
breakfast. "Nida Khan said that there was no proper arrangement for cleanliness
and the food was substandard.
She appealed to the authorities concerned
to take steps for setting up new girls hostels in the twin cities because the
existing hostel facilities were not sufficient to the ever-increasing women
working class.
A property dealer, Hameedullah, said that bachelors were
facing many problems in finding accommodation as owners preferred to rent out
houses to families.
He said that the situation aggravated after the Oct 8
earthquake, as hundreds of families migrated from NWFP and Azad Jammu Kashmir to
the twin cities. He said their migration also raised rents in the twin
cities.
Another property dealer, Muhammad Naveed said that the rents of
houses increased in winter because mostly people from Murree shifted to the twin
cities due to the snowfall and chilly weather. app
Your Comments
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City, Country: islamabad, Pakistan
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City, Country: abbottabad, Pakistan
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City, Country: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
"I am doing job in morning n study in evening, i am living in a private hostel We are 7 girls in 1 room, each paying Rs. 5000/- and no facility included in it. I am searching a good and affordable hostel in Rawalpindi or in Islamabad."
Name: Nazan Arif
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City, Country: Rawalpindi, Pakistan
"i am studying in Numl, Islamabad. I need accomodation, either a single room or that with a neat and clean partner to share with in the surroundings of the uni. ive seen 3 hostels near the uni and they are a big mess, a tiny washroom which is smelly, smelly rooms, smelly corridors, dirty walls and dirty doors with a lot of stories written on them, torn carpets, and thin old mattresses. Can somebody guide me where i can find a neat and tidy hostel. heres my contact number *************"
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City, Country: Islamabad, Pakistan
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