DU approves Rs 5,889 crore plan to expand hostel facilities for over 21,000 students

The University of Delhi’s Executive Council has approved a Rs 5,889 crore proposal to expand residential facilities for 21,895 students through the construction of new hostels and reconstruction of two existing ones.

The proposal was approved at the 1284th meeting of the Executive Council, chaired by Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh.

Under the plan, new hostels will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 4,027 crore, providing accommodation for 15,758 students, while the reconstruction of Jubilee Hall and the PG Men’s Hostel will cost Rs 1,862 crore and accommodate 6,137 students.

Singh said the designs for the buildings had been prepared keeping the needs of the 21st century in mind, with planning undertaken from a long-term perspective.

He said the circumstances under which the university’s existing hostels were built were different from those expected in the future, and the new infrastructure was being planned with the next 100 years in view.

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Additional multi-storey hostel buildings are planned at the university’s Dhaka Complex, Surajmal Vihar campus and Najafgarh campus.

Hostels for male and female students will also be constructed at Veer Savarkar College in Roshanpura, Najafgarh; at the university‘s West Campus in Dwarka; and East Campus in Surajmal Vihar, Karkardooma.

The proposed hostel complexes will include dining halls, shops, common rooms, reading rooms and residences for wardens.

Given the scarcity of vacant land on the university’s campuses, the Executive Council decided that hostel blocks would be designed to make maximum use of the permissible floor area ratio (FAR).

Singh also clarified that the names of Jubilee Hall and the PG Men’s Hostel would remain unchanged after their reconstruction.

The Executive Council urged colleges to prepare proposals for constructing hostels on their respective campuses and submit them to the funding agency.