What I wrote to the Warden

[Rupsha]

To all sisters of the Golden Circle waging a battle:

This is what I wrote to the Warden of our hostel.

Respected Ma'am,
>
> This is to bring to your notice a problem that some of the M Tech
> students residing on the 6th floor of the new wing of Hostel 10 are
> facing.
>
> Some of the residents of this floor have been suddenly asked by the
> student council members to shift to vacant rooms on the lower floors and
> the reason being cited for this is that of a massive space crunch. We
> have tried to reason with the Warden Nominee and the PG representative of
> our hostel that shifting students to lower floors can in no way solve the
> problem of a space crunch. Our Hall Manager also professes not to have
> much say in this matter, so it was not of much help to go and speak to
> her. Moreover we have already shifted thrice in the past one year and we
> really do not wish to be displaced again. This hampers our academics
> seriously. All the M Tech students are busy with their project work and
> constantly making us shift from one room to another affects us very
> badly.
> We sincerely believe that we should be allowed to stay wherever we
> are and not disturbed in any way till the end of our course. We were
> all told that you have been very kind to let the PG students stay
> wherever they are and not make us a part of the room allocation
> process . When we shifted to Hostel 10, we did so under the
> assurance that we would not have to shift again. But that does not
> seem to be the case. I would also like to bring to your attention
> the fact that there are at most one or two students in this hostel
> who voluntarily want to shift elsewhere on health and/or academic
> grounds. But this is not the general situation. None of the other
> girls have any problems with the current state of accommodation.We
> feel it is very unfair and harsh on us to tell us to shift again. It
> appears that all arrangements made for us are just temporary.
>
> In the face of such a situation we request you to kindly intervene and
> allow us to stay wherever we are for the next two semesters.Our batch
> seems to be suffering the most from such problems. We would be really
> grateful if you kindly look into this matter and let us continue to stay
> in our current rooms for the remaining duration of our course.
>
> On behalf of the M Tech students of Hostel 10,
> Thanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
> Rupsha Bhattacharyya
> (IIT Bombay, Chemical Engineering Department,
> Roll Number: 09302009)
>

And this is the reply :
"A lot of the girls in the Hostel will be moving rooms to adjust other
incoming members of the hostel. We have a huge crunch of rooms as the
incoming strength of students in the institute (more so for the PG's
then
for the UG's) cannot be accommodated easily. We were not suppose to
get
any fresh PG's/MTech this year but the situation has called for it and
again. Even many single seater's in Hostel 11 are doubled for the
fresh
occupants and we also are going to get some of the PG's/Mtech's who
cannot
be adjusted there. To the point there is talk of tripling some project
staff to adjust the incoming PG's/MTEch. We are talking to the
director to
help us with some extra housing so such tripling measures are not
required.
I am sure the girls who are moving also have a heavy schedule of
workload
and they also have to go through the trouble. The idea to request
people
to move rooms is to club type of batches together which was becoming
difficult without any help from the Mtech's. I request you to
cooperate
with Nancy as it is a very difficult task to accommodate over 460
girls.

The situation right now is how to accommodate everyone. We do not want
to
shift people a lot and I guess Nancy is trying to do so but sometimes
everyone cannot be happy. However, please I would really want all
PG's,
Mtech's and UGs to cooperate and help each other instead of only
thinking
of themselves. This is my earnest request to all of you.

regards,
Ruchi Anand"


Ruchi Anand, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
IIT-Bombay, Powai
Mumbai 400076, India

Phone: +91-22-25767165

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