Will HRA be added to basic salary? if yes, can he take the tax exemption?

if anyone stays in the company-provided studio apartment which has food and lodging facilities,
Will HRA be added to his basic salary? if yes, can he take the tax exemption?
in this case, the husband and wife work in different cities and have no own house. wife is leaving on rent with 2 children

Where the accommodation provided is bachelor type and the family stays elsewhere on rent, the employee can get HRA with respect to the station where the family is kept. Since the employee is to pay rent for his family accommodation, he is entitled for tax exemption. (Pl confirm this from an IT practitioner) .