Visakhapatnam: APCC president Y S Sharmila on Tuesday demanded that the N Chandrababu Naidu-led government immediately repair all welfare hostels in the state and improve them within a two-year timeline.

Sharmila’s remarks came following the deaths of two Kurupam Girls Gurukul students and jaundice infection in 86 others.

At present, 611 girl students, most of them tribals, are forced to use just 35 toilets in their hostel at Kurupam in Parvatipuram Manyam district.

Sharmila visited the affected students at King George Hospital (KGH) in Visakhapatnam.

“Immediately repair all hostels (government) in the state with a two-year timeline. Improve the condition of welfare hostels,” she told the media in the port city.

Ridiculing Naidu’s ‘Swarna Andhra-2047’ (Golden Andhra) vision, she said

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