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For the 50, 000- plus students who come to Delhi each year form outside the city for college education, independence comes at a cost. The pressures start off the day they arrive, and have to look for reasonable and safe living quarters. Said Richa, a second year student of an elite girls college in the campus. Living with so many restrictions is not easy. From how late I can stay out to how much water I can use, everything is decided by the landlady.
Overtures by the landladys son or male relative are another problem that the girls have to contend with. When I came last year and started looking for paying guest accommodation , my me to first check that the landlady didnt have an older son. I finally chose a house which my senior had vacated,
A sense of loneliness, isolation and depressions are also common amongst outstation students, revealed .Part of DUs counselling centre in the main campus. Of late, we have received an increasing number of calls where the student admitted to being very depressed,
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