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WORKING WOMEN HOSTEL ROWKuldip BhatiaLudhiana, April 26The dying hope of women to have a working women hostel in Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar Colony has come alive with the Punjab and Haryana High Court admitting a PIL (10017 of 2018) and issuing a notice of motion to the state of Punjab for May 5, 2018. The project was financed by the Centre and the building of the hostel to accommodate 150 working women was completed in 1981. The petition filed by city-based RTI activist Baljit Singh has submitted before the court that LIThad allotted 9,860 square yard land to the Indian Red Cross Society at a concessional rate of 25 per square yard in January 1979 for the construction of a working women hostel in BRS Nagar. The petitioner said due to the violation of lease agreement, the Red Cross Society issued a legal notice to the IRB, while LIT authorities also issued a notice in 1999 for illegal change of land use. The tenant (IRB) illegally sub-let some portion of the building to HDFC Bank for an ATM and for a canteen open to the public,” the plea said..