patna accommodation has been a worrying factor for the family members of women working far from their cosy home environs parents as well as the inlaws of those girls and women feared for their safety and security the state government initiated steps under the mukhya mantri narishakti yojana mnsy to allay their fear and set up hostels in the state capital and gaya such hostels will also come up at darbhanga muzaffarpur and bhagalpur the hostel for working women set up by the government has started functioning on boring road two days back named akansha it is the first of its kind with an objective to provide safe and suitable accommodation to working women the 50bed hostel is well equipped with facilities like internet telephone television newspapers geyser in winter and cold drinking water in summer there are separate arrangements for vegetarian and nonvegetarian food but the hostel inmates cannot cook their own food there is also a tiffin facility for them to carry to their workplace fifteen girls have registered so far for the patna hostel an inmate will be charged rs3500 per month for three meals per day and rs500 every three month for maintenance accommodation is free the hostel facility is available only to those who are either working far from home or their husbands living out of the city or divorceesseparatedwidows or women undergoing training and girl students pursuing professional courses after schooling the hostel will be provided on firstcomefirstserved basis in case the number of application exceeds the bed capacity priority would be given to widows divorcees and differentlyabled women there would not be more than 30 students and trainees among the allottees who will get the facility for one year only in special cases working mother would be allowed to keep her daughter whose age should not exceed 18 years and son of not more than five years of age the women have to submit along the application form the documents related to their employment income certificate details of local guardian and in case of differentlyabled women certificate in this regard in spite of the facilities at a very nominal rate only 15 women have registered so far and two of them have shifted to the hostel kishor kumar chaudhary project assistant said many women are not aware of this facility so we have started advertising for it we have also sent letters to different government departments colleges and hospitals so that women in need of hostel could be informed he further said the next hostel would come up in ashok rajpath locality