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Students said the DBT system for tribal students should be cancelled.Madan Patne, student leader from Pune who led the delegation, told TOI the DBT for food should be cancelled immediately. Nashik: Over 1,000 tribal students and activists from various parts of the state laid siege to the Adivasi Vikas Bhavan, the headquarters of the state tribal development commissionerate, to protest the state government decision to stop in-house mess facilities at tribal hostels. “This decision of the state government will completely destroy the tribal hostel system, the backbone for higher education for the tribal population. Students raised slogans, sang traditional tribal songs to the accompaniment of their own instruments and built up a spirit of bonhomie at the Commissionerate. My office has feedback from the students who support this scheme,” Kulkarni said..