Hyderabad, Sept. 18 -- Higher education facilities evade hundreds of students staying in the Jalpally municipality of Ranga Reddy inhabited by minority communities.

Once a rocky and barren terrain, in the last two decades around 50 localities have come up in Jalpally municipality and the majority are thickly populated and inhabited by the working class. As per the 2011 census, in the 28 wards of the municipality there are 80,374 residents and 23,961 families staying. "The population has almost doubled with close to 2 lakh people staying in the municipality area," said Mohd Saleem Khan, a local leader from Wadi e Mustafa.

Nevertheless, there are no facilities extended for higher education by the government in the Jalpally municipality ju...