PEC students with internet issues back home can stay in hostels

CHANDIGARH:PUNJAB Engineering College (PEC) students having poor internet accessibility in their home states will be accommodated in the hostels to facilitate online teaching as the institute is set to begin the next semester from Monday.

PEC had earlier proposed to provide lodging to such pupils in its hostels, following which as many as 38 students from different states, including Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, expressed their desire to get accommodated on campus for the next semester and take online classes without internet hassles.