DEFINITION OF HOSTEL:
A hostel is a place where students usually live and which is managed or controlled by administration. Hostel is basically for those who have to shift to other cities for their studies.
After schooling, student moves towards colleges, it may be possible that colleges in which they want to study, may be in the same city or not. If colleges of their choice are not in the same city, then they have to visit into other city for their study.
AIMS
To grow student emotionally, mentally, psychologically
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of Hostel are as following-
1. To provide a home for students and to help new arrivals to become adjusted to the new environment
2. To offer the right atmosphere for study and interchange of thoughts and ideas
3. To create awareness to social and moral values for improving the quality of life through education
4. Hostel life taught student to live independently, and how to deal with the other students and roommates.
5. Hostel life also makes students more ambitious, those students who have stayed in hostels are more self-reliant and confident than other students.
6. In hostels students learns audacity, bravery, daring from other student, which may help students to face the practical life more confidently.
7. Hostel life is a mixture of different cultural backgrounds, where student learns to live with different cultured background people.
8. A most popular quotation “Times change people changes”. It is best applicable for the hostel students. Hostel life change the way a student is, it effect on the personality behaviour, thinking, and dressing and many more.
9. Hostel life teaches a student regularity and punctuality.
DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITIES OF WARDEN
* Responsible for allotment of rooms to the students.
* Responsible for maintenance of the hostels.
* Looks after the quality of food served in the hostels.
* Keeps strict discipline among students of the hostels.
* Reports to the Director in case of any indiscipline or misbehavior by the students.
* Looks into the grievances/complaints of the students if found genuine.
* Arranges for first-aid in case of any emergency and arrange for hospitalization of student/staff, if required.
* Warden is custodian and in-charge of all the hostel properties. Warden has to verify the stock periodically.
ALLOTMENT OF ROOMS
* At the time of admission of a student into the hostel and at the beginning of every year, each resident is required to submit a duly completed Hostel Admission Form containing local guardians’ address and phone number etc. Email of the student and parent should also be provided. Any change of address / telephone number of the parent / local guardian, at any point of time, has to be intimated to the hostel office in writing.
* The Hostel administration will generally provide for each occupant one bed, reading table, chair, almirah, fan, tube light (or compact florescent lamp), net connection point once for an academic session at the time of allotment. However damage in any of the thing mentioned above except tube light could be repaired /replaced. On arrival, student will report to the ward boy/hostel attendant and will take possession of the room after signing the inventory of the furniture, electrical and other items in the room.
* Room once allotted to a student for an academic year will not be changed, except in special situations with the permission of Warden/Assistant Warden.
* If the status of any student changes during the period of stay in the hostel, he/she is required to inform the Warden/Assistant Warden immediately and should vacate the hostel. If the Hostel administration finds that any hostel resident is not eligible for hostel accommodation and is residing in the hostel without due permission from the Warden/Assistant Warden, disciplinary action will be taken against such illegal occupants.
* Before vacating the rooms, the electrical installations including fan should be handed over intact, in addition to the furniture to the ward boy/hostel attendant. The student should fill up the Room Vacating Slip in duplicate and take no dues on one slip from the office assistant.