Girls urinate in empty classrooms in this Hyderabad college, thanks to lack of loos..

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We have students making headlines lately for their slogans, dissent and all that they have to say about the nation going down the drains.
Meanwhile, for 476 female students in a college in Hyderabad, their biggest worry is finding a place to pee.
That is the sad state of Smt Durgabai Deshmukh Women's Technical Training Institute in Ameerpet, where there are no 'functional' toilets on campus.
What do these young girls studying in this 40-year-old state-run institute do when they have to relieve themselves?
They are forced to use the college grounds, the terrace or an 'abandoned' classroom, while friends hold a makeshift cover with a 'dupatta'.
Tired of filing complaints umpteen number of times to the principal about the 'unhygienic toilets' in the campus, which neither have proper facilities nor are cleaned regularly, the students seem to have given in to what the college has to offer.
"We are adjusting by peeing wherever we can," confessed one of the student to The Times of India .
When TOI contacted the college principal, Mr Suresh Janga, he said the toilets of the institute cannot be repaired because a 'new building for the college is under construction'.
"We are forced to live here. The present building is just a temporary arrangement. The toilets that we have are abandoned. Since the building will be dismantled, we cannot repair it," he said.
As for the new building, its completion is uncertain due to "lack of government funds".
The institute's former head of the department of Architecture, Professor M Nagaraj, wrote a letter to Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and the state Women and Child Welfare department regarding the condition of the toilets last year in November.
He is yet to hear back from either of the offices.
The miseries of the students at Smt Durgabai Deshmukh Women's Technical Training Institute do not end with the forsaken state of the campus toilets.
The college is said to be standing amid 'heaps of garbage lying unattended at multiple corners'. And that, of course, comes along with the stench of urine filling the air.
For an institute that offers diploma courses in architecture assistantship, civil engineering, computer engineering and electronics and communications engineering, it also is said to be suffering with the lack of labs and equipment.
"All the lab equipment purchased are misused because there are no proper entries made in the stock register," Professor Nagaraj stated in his letter to the chief minister.
"The computers in the institution are not fully equipped. Some of the parts are damaged. They are neither repaired nor replaced," he wrote.
Now, we hope all the issues of this ailing college are attended to ASAP.
However, not to sound judgmental, but we do think a batch of aspiring engineers can come up with a better way than to urinate/defecate in the open.