Students at Nair Hospital Dental College hostel complained of unhygienic living conditions for a week, citing uncollected garbage and unclean rooms. Authorities said the issue arose due to a strike by contract-based cleaning staff, our report stated.

Garbage piled up and clogged the sink inside the college hostel highlighted the unhygienic conditions students say they were forced to live with for over a week. The report said that though the garbage was picked up after a week, the rooms were unclean. College authorities did say that there was a strike by contract staff and they had approached the civic authorities to tackle the problem.