IIT Kharagpur asks students, researchers to vacate hostels by June 20

Students and researchers staying at IIT Kharagpur have been asked to go back to their home town by June 20.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur has asked all the students and researchers staying in campus hostels to vacate their rooms and leave for their home town by June 20.

During an interview with a media house, B N Singh, Registrar, IIT Kharagpur said that the institute wants students to go back to their home town and come back in September when the new semester will start.

Presently, over 2,100 students and researchers are living in the campus hostels. 

"Of the total 12,500 hostel boarders, 5,400 were there when the lockdown began in end-March. Another 3,000 were transported home last month and around 2,400 are presently staying in the campus," Singh said.

They have been asked to leave by June 20, he said.

"Instead of staying in the campus with no classes being held in classrooms, they can spend quality time with family and resume classes from September," Singh explained.

"Since the academic session 2019-20 has been closed and all academic activities will be completed within June 15 and the normal academic activities may only start from September, we request the students (UG, PG, research scholars) and project staff who are staying in the hostels/ halls to proceed for their home now. The institute will close mess facilities in all hostels/halls with effect from June 20," he said.

He further added that for any pending project work, the researchers can always work from home and mail it to the faculty. Faculty have been instructed to be always responsive to the student's needs. He said the hostel service staff needed a break as they had been working at a stretch for months.