Colleges in West Bengal

Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) Hall of Residence is the largest hostel in terms of area and facilities. Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence construction completed in 2010 is a modern state-of-the-art hostel. It is a very spacious hostel and has many blocks in it. Apart from LBS Hall of Residence, there are several other hostels on the campus of IIT Kharagpur.

There are 21 halls of residence (hostels are referred to as halls of residence and hostellers as boarders at IIT Kharagpur); 16 are for boys and the remaining 5 are for girls. Here is the list of halls of residence at IIT Kharagpur:

1. Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Hall
2. Azad Hall
3. B C Roy Hall
4. B R Ambedkar Hall
5. Gokhale Hall
6. Homi Bhabha Hall
7. J C Bose Hall
8. Lala Lajpat Rai Hall
9. Lalbahadur Sastry Hall
10. Madan Mohan Malviya Hall
11. Megnad Saha Hall
12. Mother Teresa Hall
13. Nehru Hall
14. Patel Hall
15. Radha Krishnan Hall
16. Rajendra Prasad Hall
17. Rani Laxmibai Hall
18. Sister Nivedita Hall
19. Sarojini Naidu / Indira Gandhi Hall
20. Vidyasagar Hall
21. Zakir Hussain Hall

There are five halls of residence (hostels) allocated for girls at IIT Kharagpur campus. Here is the list of girls hostel at IIT Kharagpur:

1. Mother Teresa Hall of Residence
2. Sister Nivedita Hall of Residence
3. Rani Laxmibai Hall of Residence
4. SAM Hall of Residence
5. Sarojini Naidu – Indira Gandhi Hall of Residence

Girl's hostels are located near the academic centre, playground, police station and auditorium.

Hostels at IIT Kharagpur are furnished with beds, tables, chairs, high-speed LAN ports, fans, lights and adequate electricity ports. The quantity of the aforementioned things may vary depending upon the occupancy of the room whether it’s single room, double sharing or triple occupancy sharing.

Also, some halls (hostel is referred to as hall of residence at IIT Kharagpur and hostellers as boarders) have washing machine facilities and some don’t. Laundry service is available at a reasonable price.

IIT Kharagpur has one of the largest college campuses. It is even bigger than the IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur campuses combined. The IIT Kharagpur campus is spread across 8.5 km (2100 acres). IIT Kharagpur is located at a distance of 120 km from Kolkata. There are 21 halls or residences (hostels) at IIT Kharagpur out of which 16 are for boys and 5 are allocated for girls and approximately 10,000 students live on the campus.