We know you are a slow learner
@RahulGandhi, so we will repeat this fact check for you. Especially. because you are using girl students to score political points. But facts dont lie, they show that educational access and residential facilities for students particularly girls and tribal children have expanded significantly since 2014:
• Hostels: 37,941 → 55,522, up 46%
• Bed capacity: 58.32 lakh → 87.78 lakh, up 51%
• Students residing in hostels: 38.25 lakh → 49.46 lakh, up 29%
• Higher-education enrolment: 3.42 crore → 4.50 crore, up 31.5%
At the senior-secondary level, girls are now outperforming boys in enrolment. In 2024–25, the Gross Enrolment Ratio was 60.9% for girls against 56.2% for boys—a lead of 4.7 percentage points.
Residential education has also expanded substantially:
• Functional Eklavya Model Residential Schools increased from just 110 in 2013–14 to 479 by July 2025—growth of over 335%. Overall, 728 EMRSs have been approved, providing tribal children free accommodation, meals, books and uniforms.
• Under Samagra Shiksha, 242 residential schools and hostels were completed between 2018–19 and November 2024.
• 2,303 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas were upgraded up to Class XII, allowing girls—especially those from disadvantaged communities—to continue residential education beyond Class VIII.
• Under PM-JANMAN, 194 hostels were approved in 2023–24 and 2024–25 for children from Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups.
• Under the Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan, 1,000 additional tribal hostels are targeted by 2028–29. In 2024–25 alone, 304 hostels worth ₹1,102.19 crore were approved.
• In February 2024 alone, 34 SC/OBC hostels worth ₹165.81 crore were inaugurated or had their foundation stones laid, creating accommodation for 5,456 students.
So Rahul Gandhi, stop using innocent girls and their aspirations to score political points.
One student’s concern deserves to be addressed. But it cannot be used to erase a decade of expanding hostels, increasing enrolment and falling dropout rates.
"सरकार के पास दिया जलाने के लिए पैसा है - हमारे हॉस्टल के लिए क्यों नहीं?"
यह सवाल कल इंदौर में एक छात्रा ने मुझसे पूछा।
गाँव से पढ़ने शहर आई। हॉस्टल है नहीं, तो PG में रहना पड़ता है। सिर्फ़ सुरक्षित रहने में लाखों ख़र्च हो जाते हैं। हर महीने किराए की चिंता, और बेघर होने का डर - इसी में पढ़ाई करनी पड़ती है।
कई लड़कियाँ इसी वजह से पढ़ाई छोड़ देती हैं। सिर्फ़ इसलिए कि रहने की जगह नहीं है।
और आवास भत्ता? महंगाई के साथ बढ़ता नहीं, ऊपर से भ्रष्टाचार की भेंट चढ़ जाता है।
@narendramodi जी - उस बच्ची के सवाल का कोई जवाब है आपके पास?