Navratri glare eludes CEPT, varsity hostels

Some 2,000 students are affected as they've been getting electricity for only 7 hrs for the last five days; they have to go out to study, rest and fetch drinking water; officials say it will take 3 more days to restore normalcy

When every street in the city is illuminated to celebrate Navratri, more than 2,000 students of CEPT University and Gujarat University hostels are struggling in the dark with no electricity for the past five days. Their repeated requests to the hostel officials has got them a generator set, but it is of little help as it supplies electricity for only a few hours.