IIT BHU - Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi - Hostel Details

No, there are no bathrooms attached to hostel rooms in IIT BHU. In fact, that is the case with most of the IITs. However, there are enough facilities available for the students in each hostel. Most of the hostels in IIT BHU have one bathroom per 10 students and that is more than sufficient in terms of availability. And most of the time students don’t face any problems regarding the bathroom facilities. In a few hostels like Limbdi, Rajputana, and Vishvesvaraya that there are washbasins in the lobby and they’re each per 10 people too. So, that pretty much sums up the bathroom facilities at IIT BHU.

The recent downloading speed is around 6 Mbps during the day as the traffic is very high. During the night the speed definitely increases but the increase is not that significant since people are awake at night too. When you are allotted your hostel rooms you will get an Ethernet cable. The speed might improve if you use the Ethernet instead of the wifi. In recent years a network with 1 Gbps bandwidth has been set up which resulted in good internet speed.

This might look very high speed to some people reading this answer, but actually this is a pretty normal speed considering its an IIT. IIT Roorkee has far better speed than this.

The institute many hostels for both boys and girls, and most of them are about 50-60 years old. The rooms in the old ones are cramped, unlike the new ones, where are quite spacious. Even then, the rooms are pretty much compact, according to the number of students in a room. When one enters the room for the first time, he will be somewhat reluctant to live here because it will be too filthy with spider webs everywhere in the room, along with some used stuff of previous occupants. Hostel administration offers a bed, table, and chair. Cupboards are already inside the room, which will be shared. In a wholly arranged room with couches, tables, and chairs, there will be no space to walk, but very spacious corridors and lawns make up for it. Vishwakarma Hostel corridors are so long that one will hesitate to go from one end to another. Each of the has basic amenities like sufficient numbers of bathrooms and water coolers.

Apart from these, hostels have common rooms, canteens, mess, TV Room, badminton court, TT tables, lawns, and high-speed internet, accessible via Wi-Fi and LAN.

All the complaints of the students are taken very seriously by the hostel administration. The authorities act promptly on any grievance or criticism of the students. There are no restrictions on the time of entry and exit from the hostel. Also, the food in the hostel messes is much better than any other IIT's mess food. The hostels of IIT BHU are quite good, and they end up being the most cherished places during the time of stay in IIT BHU.

The hostels of IIT BHU can be classified into 2 categories: new and old. Both of them have almost similar designs. The institute has renovated most of the old hostels and have well-maintained gardens inside. The rooms in these hostels are smaller and generally only two students can share the rooms. They have less number of cupboards per room.

The new hostels have larger rooms, but you may have to share the room with three people (especially if you are in the 1st or 2nd year). Another downside is the size of the garden is considerably reduced, and the overall size of the hostel is small. These hostels have more storage space.

Daily maintenance is done on the garden, the washrooms, the corridors, and other common areas. Rooms are cleaned and disinfected on a weekly basis. The washrooms are cleaned every day. Every hostel has a common room where there is a TV and a table for table-tennis. These rooms can be used for club meetings, organizing events, etc. Sports equipment can be issued- carrom board, badminton rackets, and table tennis. Multiple water-coolers are present on each floor. There are several wifi routers on each floor. Also, two LAN ports are present in each room for faster internet requirements. Each room has at least: a window, one tube light, a bulb holder, a ceiling fan, and 2 sockets. Every student is provided with a bed, a chair, and a study table. All hostels have badminton courts and some even have volleyball courts. Each hostel has at least one: Canteen, (open till 2 AM), and Mess(fixed timings). Each hostel also has allocated parking space for bikes, scooters, and cycles. Students are allowed to have basic electric equipment like heaters and coolers.

You can go in and out of campus at any time. However, there is a curfew for girls (10 PM). There are 3 girls hostels out of which one is solely for freshers. The current fresher’s hostel for boys is Aryabhatta (1 & 2).

Every summer, you have to vacate your room and put all your belongings in either the common room or other dedicated rooms. This is regular for most colleges.

Aryabhatta Hostel is the best hostel to live in when at IIT BHU. This is due to the following reasons:

• It is the most recently built hostel i.e. in the year 2016 and has all the latest facilities in the bathrooms and with the doors and windows.
• The rooms are most spacious among all the hostels in the campus.
• It’s the nearest to Hyderabad Gate, DG Cornet, and CV Raman.
• The Swimming Pool is just behind the hostel.
• The hostel is allotted to the 1st year students in undergraduate, M.Tech, and Ph.D. people.
• The common hall is so big that you can play cricket there!
• It’s 3 floors tall and that makes it the only hostel with 3 floors on campus.
• There’s the best badminton court amongst all hostels and including gymkhana.
• It has 3 canteens, again the most in a single hostel on campus.

Although this may vary from person to person. Aryabhatta is a hostel which you’d like coming into college as you’ll be having high expectations from college and this is the hostel with the most modern facilities. This might change once you progress in college life and by 4th year you’d love to be in Rajputana and Limbdi Hostels as they’re the centre point of the college and are pretty much near to everything essential for a student.