The hostel life in Delhi's top colleges such as IIT Delhi, NSIT, and DTU is generally considered to be full of roller coaster experiences. You get to interact with such a mixed crowd for the first time in your life and almost everyone here is a genius.

Your most precious memory when you will leave the college will be munching Maggie at the Maggie Baba around 3 in the morning with your friends or playing cricket at 12 midnight. You will miss the Friday night hangouts in lounges and clubs. Girls however suffer because of the curfew effective right at 9 pm. The hostels add to the overall college life experience and if you aren’t staying at a hostel, you are missing out on a lot of fun.

The rooms in the IIT Delhi girls' hostels are rather spacious and decked with basic amenities. For freshers, triple occupancy rooms are allotted. 

A typical room in a girls' hostel has basic stuff that every roommate shares such as study tables, chairs, beds, tube lights, windows, and other basic things. Other than this,

• The food served in the mess is of average quality.
• There are no AC or cooler facilities 
• The girls' hostel is located close to the academic area 
• There are 3 LAN ports in each room.

All in all, the hostel facilities for girls at IIT Delhi are decent.

IIT Delhi has both old as well as new hostels and obviously the new ones have better facilities and infrastructure. The new hostels are Girnar and Udaigiri and have spacious rooms and have 8 floors each with a total of 400 rooms in each hostel. These hostels have a big crowd which means a bigger hostel family to interact with during events. The mess facilities are also considerably better and bigger than old hostels.

The old hostel buildings have only 3-4 floors with smaller rooms and less facilities. But these hostels have a nostalgia associated with many toppers who are successful people today. This spirit keeps the ambiance of these old hostels lively.

Honestly, I wouldn’t say one hostel is better than the other. Every hostel has its unique aspects and cannot be compared.

As for the choice of hostels, no, you cannot choose your hostel. It is allotted to you randomly at the time of admission, every hostel having a mixed bag of students. You cannot change your hostel unless it’s a serious issue.

IIT Delhi has stopped providing on-campus hostel facilities to PG MTech students specially bound mainly due to the shortage of Hostel rooms inside the campus. Earlier they used to provide off-campus hostels that were in pathetic conditions. But starting from 2020, they have even stopped providing these off-campus hostels and students are expected to arrange for their accommodation.

The students have to go to the hostel inside the campus for mess food and have to roam around without any permanent on-campus residence. Moreover, so much distance between their off campus residence and the college wastes a lot of time and they can hardly spare time for doing additional things like studying for an entrance exam.

New hostels are being built to accommodate MTech students and hopefully, in the coming future you might see better hostel facilities for PG students. 

Most MTech and Ph.D. female students are assigned the following hostels

1. Sister Nivedita
2. Rani Laxmibai
3. Gokhale halls of residence
4. Mother Teresa hall

All these hostels are in close proximity to the main building and entrance thus making it easy for female students to commute to and fro from the hostel.

A typical room in these halls of residence consists of proper bedding, a table, a chair, and a LAN port. Every hostel has its own mess faculty that works under the supervision of the hall management committee or private contractor. The best part is the flexible environment posing no restrictions on girls and no discrimination between boys and girls. 

IIT Kharagpur offers the best hostel life with a splash of greenery, tranquility, and a serene environment. 

IIT Kharapur has around 18-20 hostels. There are 2 main girl hostels that will be allotted to you way before you reach IIT KGP for admission.

Once you reach, that particular hostel will go through your documents and a lot of room. The rooms are usually double occupancy so you can ask for sharing the room with a specific friend also. You are also allowed to change your rooms after 15-20 days provided that you inform the hostel authority of the same and get registered under the new room.

For UG girls IIT KGP has two main halls of residence: Sarojini Naidu Hall (SN) and Mother Teresa Hall(MT).

SN Hall

The Hall firmly believes in its motto: Sanskrita Striya Shakti. Some highlights of this Hall are

• This is the most lively and oldest hall at the institute which has managed to promote both academics and social and cultural activities in the form of events and competitions, organized by students, Gymkhana. The students of this hall are majorly involved in the spring fest, Kshitij, etc.
• The hall is divided into A, B, H, E, F, G, N, NR, W, and S blocks in four different buildings.
• The Hostel boasts its own basketball court, a well-equipped gym for health freaks, and table tennis facilities.
• Singing and dancing activities are practiced in the music room which has all the necessary facilities for the same.
• The hall also has its own student-driven library that issues the required books to all the wingmates for a complete semester.
• Food at this hostel is pretty good, and there is a night canteen food stall and a Nescafe within the hall that satisfies the untimely cravings of the hostellers.
• There are two common rooms; an old one and a comparatively new one that has a TV Connection, projector screen and is well furnished 
• You get the privilege to stay at the same hall where famous personalities like Dr Parvati Dev (B.S.1968) Director, Stanford University School of Medicine, and President, IIT Foundation, Dr Nina Saxena (B Tech 1992), stayed.

MT Hall

This hall is similar in almost all aspects to SN Hall. Specifically talking about girls, the hostels are safe and there is a sense of freedom like no other.