About Hostels

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UG and PG Hostels and Messes under the aegis of Office of Director Hostels, Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women’s University (VCIWU), Hyderabad is an integral part of the University which aims to create supportive living environments to undergraduate second and final year students and PG first and second year students with unprecedented homely and healthy environment and uncompromised safety and security. University made an humble beginning in the year 1949 to provide accommodation to UG girl students from diverse and remote areas of Telangana state, emphasizing on safety, comfort and academic growth in homely environment with 37 students.

Vision

To foster capabilities in girl boarders by promoting leadership, harmony and life skills through shared responsibilities, where living integrates with learning and transform them into future leaders through holistic development and serving as a secure, vibrant “Home away from home” in alignment with the University mission

Mission

Office of the Director Hostels, VCIWU works with dedicated commitment and passion with the motto of "SELF-DISCIPLINE IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS".

To provide a safe, supportive and well-maintained homely environment and a balanced healthy food and facilities that challenges and encourages every boarder to achieve their highest academic, social and personal potential.

Office of Director Hostels, VCIWU works on the following objectives in alignment with the University’s goals:

• Academic Support: Being a catalyst for academic excellence by providing a focused, conducive, and resourceful study environment.
• Safety & Wellness: Being a benchmark for security, hygiene, and mental well-being among all residential facilities.
• Community Building: Being a dynamic, inclusive, and respectful community that celebrates diversity and encourages the formation of lifelong connections.
• Holistic Development: Being a place where students develop life skills, leadership qualities, and personal accountability alongside their academic pursuits by conducting awareness programs, educational tours and health camps
• Staff: To ensure the physical safety and emotional security of all residents through strict adherence to rules, modern security systems, and a dedicated, caring staff.
• Maintenance: To provide and maintain clean, comfortable, and well-equipped living spaces and infrastructure that are conducive to rest and study.
• Conducive Environment: To create a disciplined and quiet atmosphere that allows for uninterrupted learning and promotes the use of available study resources.
• Inclusion: To foster a residential culture of mutual respect, tolerance, and open communication, encouraging dialogue among students from diverse backgrounds.
• Life Skills: To offer co-curricular and social programming that develops essential life skills such as conflict resolution, responsibility, self-management, and leadership through regional festival celebrations
• Health: To consistently provide nutritious, healthy, and hygienically prepared food options that meet the dietary needs and preferences of a diverse student population.
• Quality: To operate a transparent mess system that actively incorporates student feedback to maintain high standards of service and food quality.

The staff at the hostels make incessant and sincere efforts to provide clean environment, disciplined lifestyle and comfortable stay for two years to boarders. Our hostels also provide a suitable ambience to the students coming from different parts of Telangana state with different socio-economic backgrounds and diverse cultures and traditions. Hostels ensures the culmination of students’ varied upbringings to promote peace and harmony among them, develop leadership qualities and life skill sets by assignment of various responsibilities in the management of hostels, moulding them to be future ready by developing inter-personal relationships, exchange of ideas and constant interactions with fellow boarders and create beautiful memories in the lush green campus at the hostels.

UG and PG Hostels Office of the Director Hostels situated at undergraduate Old hostel block has about 500 boarders and at undergraduate New hostel block, about 250 boarders from social sciences are present. At PG Block (CHW II Block, OU campus), there are about 650 PG hostel boarders from PG first and second year MA/MCom/MSc/MBA/MCA courses.