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A protest organised by AISA student body took place today, on 31st July, 2025, at Ramjas College’s front gate, as the college shuts down all admissions for both of its hostels with the start of the 2025-26 academic session.

On 30th July 2025, Ramjas College issued a notice informing students that the hostel would not be accepting admissions for the academic year 2025-2026. The notice mentions the building being under a structural stability test as the main reason for the hostel shutdown. As a response, a student protest organized by All India Students’ Association (AISA) took place today, i.e., on 31st July, 2025, at Ramjas College’s front gate from 2 pm onwards, resisting this shutdown and demanding hostel rights for all students. The students called out the action for adding to the increasing inaccessibility of affordable accommodation in DU, a move that furthers the exclusion of marginalised students.

The hostels accommodated 210 people every year and had a specific number of seats available for the reserved category students (SC/ST, physically challenged, sports persons, foreign students, etc.) to occupy.

With PG and flat rates in North Campus skyrocketing, Anjali, a Delhi University student and representative of the All India Students’ Association (AISA), says:

This model is pushing students toward unaffordable private accommodations and chipping away at the public character of DU. With lakhs of students arriving from across India, hostels are not a luxury; they are a right. We will fight tooth and nail to defend that right for all.”

She also explains how this isn’t just an isolated event but a visible pattern for exclusion:

What’s happening at Ramjas is not new; it’s part of a disturbing pattern across Delhi University. Hindu College Boys’ Hostel has remained shut since the lockdown. KMC dismantled seat allocations for PG students. And now Ramjas has shut down both hostels just as freshers arrive.”

Hindu College’s Boys Hostel is being demolished and rebuilt with the promise to accommodate more students since 2023. LSR College hostel has also remained closed for “maintenance reasons” since March of 2023.

Anjali further talks about how, despite having space for building affordable hostels for students, the university land is being used for private constructions:

This is a strategic move to exclude students from marginalised backgrounds. AISA has long fought for student accommodation. Back in 2016, we launched the “Room of My Own” campaign and submitted a list of vacant DU-owned land that could be used to construct hostels. Yet in 2019, a 39-story private building was being made on university land in front of Vishwavidyalaya metro.”

While the hostels are aged and rundown, it is the responsibility of the university, according to the UGC guidelines, to ensure that students from all sections of society studying here have affordable and safe living situations. The decision to close down the hostel directly contradicts this mandate.

With multiple college hostels currently non-operational, concerns over affordable and inclusive student housing remain unaddressed.

Image Credits: AISA

Gaurika Bahl

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The race to get a hostel seat has begun. There are a few of these coveted spots that would enhance the campus experience of a student. Almost all colleges offer seats on the basis of merit in the form of cut-offs. Here is a complete guide to hostel admissions:

Applying: The applicant must apply in a separate hostel form along with the actual application at the college premises. The forms are available at the college premises although some like Hindu College have online application forms that have to be submitted in hard copy. This has to be done within the stipulated deadline issued by the individual colleges. This is chiefly an offline process and the candidate has to submit the required documents along with the hostel form available at the college premises.

These are the links for the hostel admissions forms at various colleges. Where forms are not available online, we have provided links to the pages which the candidates have to monitor to see the merit list. Candidates are advised to keep on monitoring the website to see when the merit list of applicants who secured a seat are announced. The actual merit list is available on the College website and notice boards.

For SRCC:
Girls Hostel: http://www.srcc.edu/girls-hostel

Boys Hostel: http://www.srcc.edu/boys-hostel

For Kirori Mal College: http://www.kmcollege.ac.in/

For St. Stephen’s: https://www.ststephens.edu/

For SGTB Khalsa College (For girls): http://www.sgtbkhalsadu.ac.in/g-hostel.jsp

For Miranda House: http://mirandahouse.ac.in/residence/admissionprocedure.php

For Ramjas College: http://ramjas.du.ac.in/hostel_in_detail.php?id=123&cid=15

For Hindu College:

For girls: http://hinducollege.ac.in/download/2018/Application%20Form%20hostel%202018-2019.pdf

For boys: http://www.hinducollege.ac.in/download/forms/2017/Application%20Form%20hostel.pdf

For Hansraj College: http://www.hansrajcollege.ac.in/admissions/admissionupdates.php

For Daulat Ram College: http://dr.du.ac.in/index.php

For Sri Venkateshwara College:

For boys: http://www.svc.ac.in/HostelApplicationForm2018-2019.pdf

For Lady Shri Ram College: http://lsr.edu.in/

For Deen Dayal Upaydhaya College: https://dducollegedu.ac.in/Viewtopics.aspx?MenuId=Dme9y5Da1wl____zRkCVei3Sp6hewZ7UXdgHSyy395ioLY=

For Lady Irwin College: http://www.ladyirwin.edu.in/hostel_admission.aspx

For IP College for Women: http://ipcollege.ac.in/Viewtopics.aspx?Menuid=Hostel_Admissions_1829

For Maharaja Agrasen College (for Girls): http://mac.du.ac.in/pdf/Maharaja%20Agrasen%20College%20hostel%20form.pdf

For Keshav Mahavidyalaya: http://keshav.du.ac.in/Downloads/Hostel/HostelProspectus2018-19.pdf

For Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women: http://rajgurucollege.du.ac.in/cas/hostel.html

Admission: Admission into the hostels are purely based on merit. The applicants may get a seat only after they secure a seat in a department of that particular college. A merit list of students who have been granted a seat along with a waiting list is announced on the college website and notice board. Then, the accepted students have to submit the required documents like medical certificates, payment dues as well as local guardian credentials. Some colleges also conduct a round of interviews with the parents, students and the local guardian. It would be useful to check the individual hostel prospectus for further details.
Allocation of rooms: After the formalities of admission are done, the students are allocated rooms. They have to shift to the rooms within a stipulated number of days, failing which their admission will be cancelled. Vacancy of any seat, if any, would be informed in the college website or notice board.

Feature Image Credits: Hindu College website

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