ARAVALI HOUSE
Aravali House is the oldest hostel on the campus committed to providing excellent facilities and a homely atmosphere for the creame of the country to pursue their academic and extra curricular interests. It gives you a sense of association with one of the country’s best educational institutions. Founded, in 1963, Aravali boasts of its Alumni excelling in their fields the world over and continues to prepare new batches for a wonderful career ahead. The hostel has a very unique location due to its proximity to the canteen and stationary shops.

THE HOUSE
Aravali has 299 rooms, two thirds of which are single rooms. About 425 students can be housed at a time in all its rooms. The warden’s house adjoins the hostel and he can be approached easily at 26591658. Aravali has two MTNL telephones to make outgoing calls. There is a private telephone booth for making STD and ISD calls. The hostel has a internal telephone (6911), which can also be used to receive external calls (26596911). There is a special MTNL phone (26581387) available to receive STD and ISD phone calls. The students are advised to give these numbers (26596911) and (26581387) to their parents and relatives. A security guard is present around the clock to man the entrance and receive the telephone calls. A special public address system is installed in the hostel to make announcements all over the hostel about the telephone calls.

COMMON ROOM
The house has a set of common rooms with recreational facilities. Newspapers and Magazines are available in the reading room. TV room contains TV and related gadgets. Indoor Sports Room contains Table Tennis set, Chess set and Carom Board. The trophies won by the hostel are displayed in the Reading Room. The common rooms are open around the clock.

MUSIC ROOM
Music Room is another place of interest where various musical instruments are maintained. This room is also equipped with a music system with CD and Cassette Player. Any resident can reserve the room for one hour slot and enjoy the music of his interest. The Ara-Library has about 500 books of various types – novels, science, fiction, comics, poetry etc.

LAN
One of the fascinating features of IIT hostels is in house cybercafe called computer Room. At present there are seven Pentium PC’s which are on IIT LAN which itself is connected to high speed VSNL line. Every Araite will have special account to enjoy untiring computing. All the rooms have internet ports and students are encouraged to use their own PCs for unlimited surfing and computation. Activities leading to Cyber Crime are strictly prohibited at the IIT Campus. Students found involved in these activities will be punished severely leading to expulsion from hostel and institute.

GYM ROOM
Araite are encouraged to keep them fit and healthy. Aravali has a full-fledged Gym room with variety of gym facilities. The Gym room is opened both I the morning and the evening for few hours.

GUEST ROOM
A special Guest Room is available to entertain guests for a limited duration of time. Private Laundry facilities are available in addition to six Washing Machines and twelve Iron Boxes present in the hostel for general use. Each bath room block consists of a geyser to supply hot water. Refrigerated and purified water is available for drinking in mess.

THE HOUSE STAFF
The Caretaker and Assistant Caretaker: They are responsible for keeping the house in good condition and implementing the rules of the house. The residents are requested to lodge all their complaints regarding house except the dining hall with them.

The Catering Supervisor and Assistant Catering Supervisor are responsible for the efficient running of the dining hall. The students are requested to follow the rules laid by the staff and report any problem related to dining hall to them.

Apart from these staff there are separate staff for the cleaning of the house and separate staff for providing services I dining hall. Students should behave well with all the staff members and report to the Warden in case of any problem.

THE HOUSE MANAGEMENT
The House Master is the head of the house, It is honorary position given to a senior professor, who helps the hostel management in important decision making. A faculty member of IIT will be the warden of house. The day to day affairs in running the house, house room allotment, conduction of election etc. are carried out in the supervision of The Warden. He or his nominee has to be contacted for many student activities of the house.

STUDENT ROLE
Students play a pivotal role in the running of the house. An elected team of Secretaries and Representatives form a House Working Committee (HWC). The House Secretary is the student leader of HWC. House Master and Warden are also members of this committee. HWC manages all the internal activities of house. The residents of the hostel elect the Secretaries and Representatives and few committee members are nominated. Important decisions about the various house activities, like purchases, hostel development policies, rules etc. are decided by HWC.

The house follows a priority system for allotment of house facilities to the students like room allotments etc. The default priority is as follows:

Any special case can be brought for the consideration of the Warden. Within the same academic group, the priority is decided by the contribution of the students to the hostel by representing the house in various inter and intra hostel events. This becomes the basis for awarding certificates and prizes also.

 

CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS
With the students, faculty and staff residing in side the campus., IIT Delhi is a residential campus. Since its inception the institute has place accent on providing an invigorating and creative environment, which promotes independent thinking and introspection. The students there by become aware of the consequences of their own actions. Through participation in various activities, the student extends his intellectual and aesthetic horizons far beyond the realm of the hostel and institute. The staff assisted by the students and faculty manages the hostels. Overall management of hostel is carried out according to the provisions of the Board for Hostel Management (BHM). BHM is one of the Boards constituted by the Students Affairs Council (SAC). SAC is a joint student-faculty senate committee, governed by its own constitution, which was approved by the senate of the institute.

BHM has its own constitution and it is responsible for policy formation and review of all matters relating management of the hostels. At the hostel level a House Working Committee (HWC), organizes and manages the hostel and is recognized by the BHM.

The quality of house depends on the abilities of members of HWC. The active members can change the quality of food and surroundings and overall living conditions of house. The amount of mess charges very much depends on the efforts of the mess secretary and committee. The Residents are requested to demand good quality of work from these elected members.

Another important input to the quality of life in the house is cooperation of the residents. The creative and intelligent resident can generate new ideas towards making the house a better place.