VETERINARY COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UDUMALPET

The boys hostel provides additional space for warden office, guest room, medical officer room, reading hall, TV room and indoor sports hall. The girls hostel hosts deputy warden office, guest room, reading hall, indoor sports hall and two dining halls apart from rooms for students. In addition, girls' hostel has volley ball and badminton court inside the hostel premises.

Notice boards are fixed in each hostel to notify the circulars. The hostel inmates are provided with dailies in English and Tamil, sports items and first aid medical kits. In addition, water heaters (06), LED TV (02), refrigerator (01), water dispenser for hot and cold water (02) and insect killers (02) are provided in the hostel.

Potable drinking water is ensured through two RO plants of 1000 litres per hour capacity separately for both the hostel.

For maintenance of clean hostel premises and sanitation, 6 ladies are engaged on daily wage basis.Mess facility is arranged on a contract basis with the approval of the University. Shri. Venkateswara Catering services is catering with a dividend share of Rs. 144 per day per student.Well equipped kitchen for cooking is available at the boys' hostel. Cooking vessels have been purchased for Rs.5 lakhs from the University fund.Food Inspection Committee is constituted to check the hygienic measures adopted in hostel mess, quality of vegetables, grocery items, milk and cleanliness of mess and cooking area.

CCTV cameras have been fixed in the hostel premises for safety of the inmates.Biometric system is installed in both the hostel to monitor and ensure the movement of the students.

Anti-ragging committee is constituted to ensure the prevention of ragging in the college and hostel premises. The faculty are allotted duties and responsibilities on rotation basis all round the clock to ensure the same. Separate mess timing is exclusively followed for first year boys and a separate dining facility is provided for first year girls for the first three months.

Hostel amenity committee meeting is convened at an interval of three months with staff and student representatives to discuss various measures to be taken for review of hostel accounts, mess menu, dividend and measures to be taken for efficient and economical running of the hostel.

A part-time medical officer was appointed to provide health care to the hostel students. Visits have been arranged two times a week. Periodical deworming and distribution of iron supplements to students are routinely followed in the hostel. A separate vehicle with a driver is available 24x7 to commute the students to nearby hospitals for any medical emergency as and when required.

The hostel administration and welfare of the students is looked after by the following team of faculty appointed for a term of two years by the University.