Two new hostels with capacity to accommodate 1,000 students were inaugurated at the Delhi Technological University (DTU) on Wednesday. With the inauguration of the new hostels, DTU can now house 1,105 girls and 1,605 boys. The hostels -- Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Boys Hostel and Virangana Laxmibai Girls Hostel-- were inaugurated by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.

“The number of students in DTU has gone up from 6,000 in 2015 to 15,000 in 2022. In such a situation, it is important for us to expand our facilities to accommodate more and more students,” Sisodia said during the inauguration ceremony.

The newly-constructed hostels are said to be equipped with fully furnished and air conditioned rooms, a TV Room, a gymnasium, indoor games area, a reading and internet room, a dining room, a parlour, an activity room, and a guest room. Sisodia said that the expansion will further bolster the “world-class education” being provided by DTU and help the university nurture its students better.

The Kejriwal Government aims to provide world-class higher education and professional education to all the students who are joining State universities and facilitating good accommodation for them is a very important part of it, Sisodia said.

It is to be noted that Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Boys hostel has facilities to accommodate more than 300 students. It has 12 floors with 107 rooms. Whereas Virangana Laxmibai Hostel is a 12 storey building with 227 rooms and can accommodate over 600 students.

“There are many other hostels at the campus named after various researchers and scientists. DTU now has the facility to accommodate over 2,600 students in its hostel. Apart from this DTU will soon get two new academic blocks for more than 3,000 students, which are currently under construction. The total cost of construction of two new hostels and two academic blocks is Rs 291.88 crore,” said an official.

Meanwhile, Sisodia said that this expansion in facilities to students will further support the world-class education being provided by DTU and help the university nurture its students better.

Yogesh Singh, the Vice-Chancellor of University of Delhi and former Vice Chancellor of DTU, who arrived as a special guest on this occasion, in his address said that there was a lot of problem of hostel in DTU which has been completed to a great extent after the inauguration of these new hostels.

He said that projects worth about Rs 400 crore were started in DTU, out of which construction works worth about Rs 300 crore have been completed.