A brief overview...
The Roorkee campus of IITR is spread over a sprawling 320 acres of land area. The magnificent Main Administrative Building is a reminder of the institute’s glorious past. The campus includes 13 boys’ Bhawans (that’s what we call our hostels here) and two girls’ Bhawans along with accommodation facilities for married students. Supporting 18 different departments, the IITR campus is unique. It includes an Institute Computer Centre, a state-of-art library, a sports complex and a huge Lecture Hall Complex where most of the lectures are held. All the hostels and even some of the departments are wi-fi enabled giving you access to high speed internet. Now, talking about sports, IITR excels in it. Be it lawn tennis, badminton, cricket, football, squash, swimming, table-tennis and even billiards, IITR has facilities for all. It has two large stadiums especially for sports events.
IIT Roorkee has its own modernised hospital with 24-hour ambulance service. So, if you get ill, they send up as ambulance to pick you up right away.
Though there might not be a glitz of the malls or multiplexes here, the proximity to places like Rishikesh, Haridwar, Mussorie, Chandigarh, Delhi, lot of trekking ranges and adventure sports more than makes up for it.
The speciality of IIT Roorkee campus lies in its natural beauty, grassy fields, tree lined roads and clean, serene environment, that’s what keeps us bound here. There are many eateries inside campus buzzing with student groups, also each Bhawan has its own canteen. You can find all the things you need here in the civil lines, which is a large market just outside the IITR campus where there are shops for absolutely everything.
About extra-curricular activities, there are various groups here. The Hobbies club is the umbrella organisation which maintains many of the groups like robotics, photography, Software development section, electronics section, star gazing etc. and one can choose a group according to his/her choice. There are a lot of other societies and groups like literary magazines, entrepreneurial and economic cells, cultural council (drama, music, dance, management), NCC, NSS, Himalayan Explorer’s Club and a lot of national and international clubs.
There is a club for indoor games like pool, table tennis, foosball, carom, chess and many of them are available in each hostel as well.
Here we have is a Saraswati Mandir, a Masjid and a Church, all within the campus itself. So whenever you feel low, you can take God’s shelter. Many festivals are celebrated in them time to time as well.
Ragging is completely banned in IITR. All the first year boys are accommodated in a separate hostel called Rajendra Bhawan. So there is no chance of getting ragged by your seniors, the authorities are very strict, so rest assured.
Well that’s all I can say about the campus right now. We’ll be adding a lot to this blog in time, so stay in touch. Wishing you all the best for your future, we hope to see you here at IIT Roorkee.
Ist Year
B. Tech. Computer Science & Engineering
