IIT Roorkee - Indian Institute of Technology - [IITR], Roorkee - Hostel Details

IIT Roorkee offers the best hostel facilities to first-year students. Their hostels are bigger and better than the hostels of other students. The rooms are usually single or double sharing and are decked with basic amenities.

Most students prefer bringing baggage to hostels while some pack almost every possible thing. I wouldn’t suggest you pack a lot as literally everything you want is available very easily. So you will just be adding extra luggage that will become a nuisance for you.

Don’t pack too many clothes and unnecessary electronic gadgets as all laundry facilities are available. Pack light luggage and include the following 

• Clothes and towels
• Footwear, mainly shoes
• All necessary documents
• Very essential stationery items 
• Your personal stuff
• A dictionary 

Refrain from carrying unnecessary bedding and books as everything is available in Roorkee. You can get essential commodities like mattresses, buckets, and other toiletries.

The hostel life at IIT Roorkee is nothing less than magic as it gives you precious memories that will stay with you forever.

During the initial days, you will have to stand in queues for your food or library cards. The food at the mess will look edible initially but very soon you will start detesting it. It’s advisable to seek constant help from your seniors and maintain good bonds with them.

After a few months you will adapt yourself to the campus and your hostel will become your home away from home. Night outs will become a common occurrence and you will love strolling through the campus the entire day. All this will leave an everlasting impression on you and you will end up missing these days a lot.

Every hostel at IIT Roorkee has different quality rooms allotted to the students. My friend is a first-year student and was allotted a room in Rajendra Bhavan. This hostel is meant specially for first-year students and comprises 3 blocks, A, B, and C. 

• All the 3 blocks have a different variety of rooms with block A having the best.
• A typical room in a hostel of IIT Roorkee has a cupboard, study table, laptop table, chair, and bed. 
• Every room has different quality wall paint and other things like curtains, foot mats, flooring, and power sockets.
• A block has mostly single occupancy rooms while block B has 2-3 seater rooms. Block C has a unique aspect of an individual open balcony in every room.
• There are electrical appliances like Fans, LED lights, LAN ports, and room heaters to make the students stay comfortable.
• The best rankers are usually given single rooms while others are given double rooms. 
• After completing your first year, you are allotted a single room that is large enough for a single student. 
• The girls hostels are Sarojini Bhavan and Kasturba Bhavan.
• The mess is maintained well and serves hygienic yet average taste food.

Overall, IIT Roorkee has decent hostels that will not make you feel homesick!

IIT Roorkee has several hostels for students, each with its own unique features and amenities. Some of the best hostels in IIT Roorkee include

Rajendra Bhavan: This hostel is especially for freshers and has the best amenities. Every block has a lawn with a volleyball net. The Internet facility is a bit poor but it works in favor of the students giving them more time to spend with each other and involving in outdoor sports. However, the food served in the mess is pathetic.

Govind and Jawahar: Both these hostels are equally decent white Govind has a slight edge over Jawahar owing to its close proximity to departments. Some major facilities of these hostels include the central library, computer center, banks, Lecture Hall Complex, and the Main Building. The mess food at Govind is served far from the main building but the food served at both hostels is of better quality.

Ravindra: This is close to Gobind and in general to other departments as well. The hostel has its own stationary and Xerox store. The food served is also of good quality and taste. The only disadvantages are the small rooms with little ventilation and the faraway mess.

Radhakrishnan and Rajiv: Both these hostels have been newly constructed in the form of buildings instead of the usual hostel structure. The building has no open facilities like lawns and the only area to get fresh air is the gray cemented open space on the first floor in Radhakrishnan with two badminton nets. Both these hostels have great gym facilities and Radhakrishnan even has a generator facility but again very pathetic mess of food and small rooms.

Cautley and Ganga: Both these are the least preferred hostels among the students. This is because the mess is detached and serves below-average food. Ganga has very small rooms in comparison to Cautley which has better rooms and also an ATM, a lawn, and a general and stationery store. 

The general preference order is as follows

Rajendra Bhawan > Govind Bhawan > Jawahar Bhawan > Ravindra Bhawan > Rajiv Bhawan > Radhakrishnan Bhawan > Cautley Bhawan > Ganga Bhawan.

Yes, in IIT Roorkee rooms are somewhat allotted based on JEE AIR. One of my friends who studied there told me her neighbors shared the first 2 or 3 digits of rank. However, there is no partiality and only top rankers aren’t allotted the best rooms. The layout and size of rooms in most hostels are similar with minor differences.

The freshers are allotted the Rajendra Bhavan which has 3 blocks. The opening rankers might be given a slight advantage here. Most branch mates are neighbors unless you are an opening rank of the branch, you will be allotted the block where other rank openers reside.

From 2nd year, you will be sharing a hostel with PG students and Research scholars who complain about any noise.