BOHA
Mission
In every IIT it is mandatory for each and every student to live in the campus premises itself in order to promote self-dependency and bonhomie. And to fulfil that, every IIT has hostels for students. For ensuring that the hostels are maintained properly and students are comfortable , a hostel secretary is elected. Under hostel secretary, there are hostel representatives for each hostel who are responsible for the maintainence of their hostel . Every year, there are competitions among hostel on different festivals like hostel decoration, samagam etc to promote unity,teamwork and competetive spirit among the hostelers.
Hostels
The Institute campus houses 8 hostels: Satlej, Beas, Sindhu, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune Hostels for boys and Ravi, Venus Hostels for girls. The hostels are well equipped for comfortable lodging and boarding of students. All hostels are provided with water coolers and RO systems. Each hostel has a common room that provides facilities for indoor recreation and games. The hostel complex also includes shops that cater to the basic needs of the residents, and also a few washing machine facility. The day-to-day management of hostels is taken care of by a committee consisting of student representatives. Each hostel has a warden, who guides the students to manage the affairs of the hostels.
Samagam
Samagam allows to foster and develop all student activities in the Institute. It aims at promoting and developing organizational abilities in students. It has been successful over the years in evolving a well-informed, articulate and participatory student community life. It has been instrumental in identifying student issues and promoting discussion on them.
Mess
The mess has a spacious and air-conditioned dinning room, a well-equipped and hygienically maintained kitchen, a cold storage room for perishable items and a storeroom for other items. The menu has popular dishes from different regions of the country in order to serve the needs of the hostel's mixed population.
Constitutional Bodies
The section presents the Organisation of the Bodies supporting each member of the Executive Council.
All the constitutional bodies shall meet atleast once every month pertaining issues and
new proposals for the welfare of the Students.
The Council Works as under:
- 1. Members:
- a. Chief Warden and Hostel Wardens, IIT Ropar (Advisory).
- b. Mess Secretary I
- c. Mess Secretary II
- d. Hostel representatives from each hostel.
- 2. The committee shall assist the General Secretary BOHA in all matters related to the Mess.
Executive Council
The roles, responsibilities and duties of the elected Executive Council members of the Student Council are described in the sub-sections below.
The Executive Council shall meet atleast once every month pertaining issues and new proposals for the welfare of the Students.
Responsibilities:
- 1. The General Secretary BOHA shall be responsible for the overall functioning of the Hostels, which shall include, but not limited to,
- (a) Hostel maintenance
- (b) Mess management
- (c) Misc. Hostel Activities
- 2. He/she shall be supported by Presidents of each hostels and mess secretary (to selected at hostel level), for all matters related to hostels
- 3. He/she shall plan the budgetary requirements for the hostel in consultation with the hostel presidents and Mess Secretary and discuss it with the President who will forward it to the Chief Warden.
- 4. He/she shall seek advice from the Chief Warden on all matters related to the hostels.
- 5. He/she shall provide support to the institute on all matters related to the mess.
- 6. He/she shall work with the Faculty advisor, Mess Committee of the institute to liaison with external agencies regarding matters related to mess activities.
- 7. He/she shall present detailed account of all expenditure to the President for all expenditures related to hostels at the end of his term.