The JAMUI district is surrounded by dense forest & geographically difficult terrain, there are number of sparsely populated habitations within. Such habitations have not been provided with school facility in their neighbourhood as per state norms. Thus in order to insure elementary education of all the children of age group 6-14 yrs. Belonging to such habitation, Residential Hostel/School has been established in U M.S. Hathiawar Taljhari, Laxmipur campus under SSA. The children belonging to such habitations remains deprived of elementary education as they are compelled to live there life in highly difficult situation . They are engaged in either domestic activities like taking care of cows, got, sheep, making of bidi...etc. Jamui is the amogst two such district of Bihar where such kind of hostel facility has been provided under SSA. Although This hostel is supposed to cover only boys of such habitation with asumption that the girls are being covered by KGBV (Kasturba Gandhi Balika Viidyalaya) which is also providing residential facility, but still district is experiencing to have no option for the 6-10 age group of girls children rsiding under such habitaions.
The hostel has been sanctioned to accomodate 100 children of above situation. Currently most of the accomodated children are of of SC & ST category .----