Hostel relief for Berhampur University students

Accommodation for postgraduate students seeking admission in Berhampur University would no longer be a problem with university authorities allotting hostel facilities at the time of admission. Hostel with sufficient accommodation facilities have been reserved for first-year students - both girls and boys. The allotment of rooms was made on the spot of their admission like the major Indian institutes-IIMs, IITs and NITs.

Students had to face a harrowing time to get accommodation in the hostels before implementation of this method. The students, especially girls, constitute around 50% of total students' strength in the university, were the biggest sufferers. "We have adopted this student-friendly approach from last year to help students, who came from far-off places," said vice-chancellor J K Mohapatra, whose three-year term as VC was over on Friday. Most of the parents expressed satisfaction on the approach, he said. "We have already allotted hostel facilities to 130 freshers - 70 girls and 60 boys - in the past two days," said hostel warden Prasanna Kumar Biswasray. The admission process in postgraduate departments in the university started on Wednesday. There would be no problem to accommodate hostel-seekers this time, particularly for girls, as the university will add three more hostels for them this time, Biswasray said. While a 42-capacity girls' hostel meant for research scholars would start soon, construction of two other hostels with accommodation capacity of around 200 girls is underway and is expected to be completed by the end of this year, he said, adding that the university has also hostels facilities to accommodate over 500 boys.

Source: Times of India