This Kengeri college spreads over three locations

Bengaluru: Walking between classes is quite common in college but the students of the Government First Grade College (GFGC) in Kengeri have to travel between one and 12 km to get to the different parts that comprise their college campus.
The college is spread over three locations as it doesn't have a permanent building or campus. The main building of the college, established in 2007, is a rented house with three classrooms and three staff rooms in Kengeri.A kilometre away are eight classrooms at a government high school. The physics lab is 12km away in another college in Vijayanagar. Both students and teachers have to travel between the three campuses every day to attend and conduct classes.
The college has 450 students pursing BSc, BA, BCom and BBA. The rented house, which is the main building of the college, has just one toilet for all the students. The college has been paying Rs 30,000 as rent for the house since 2011. One of the rooms in this house serves three purposes-computer lab, classroom and staff room.
Two first year BSc students said there was no proper ventilation in the house and the classrooms are often dark since the power goes out. "There is only one toilet, which is used by both girls and boys," the students said.
A kilometre away in the government high school, the rooms used by the college don't have any fans, and some large rooms are divided with a curtain to create two classrooms. A group of students said sitting in the classrooms in the school campus during summer was horrible as the roof is made of asbestos sheets. "It feels like we are sitting in an oven. There are no libraries. There are just five computers for hundreds of students," said a student. There isn't any drinking water and a college employee carries cans across from the main building on a bicycle 10 times a day.
The college was granted 1.1 acres of land in Kengeri and the foundation was for the building, but one person moved the court against the project and the case is pending. "Every year, 700 to 1,000 students apply for admission. We reject most of them because we lack infrastructure. When it rains, teachers get stuck on one campus and can't go and conduct the classes in another campus," a senior faculty member said.
H Prakash, president of Karnataka Government College Teachers' Association, said there are 411 GFGCs in the state of which around 100 do not have their own buildings.