Accommodation
There are three hostels at Chellah Campus Muzaffarabad. One hostel for boys and two hostels for girls are currently accommodating the students of the 02 Campuses at Muzaffarabad. Furthermore, 06 state of the art hostels have been constructed at the King Abdullah Campus Chattar Klass out of which there are 03 boys’ hostels and 03 girls’ hostels. The students can apply only for those hostels which are near to their departments. Therefore, the students of King Abdullah Campus will be allotted seats in KAC Hostels whereas the students of Campuses in Muzaffarabad will be accommodated in the hostels in Muzaffarabad (Chellah Campus).
Each hostel provides mess facility and services of room attendants to its boarders in addition to recreational and other basic facilities. For the limited number of seats available at the above said hostels, policy of first come, first served is adopted. The office of the Directorate of Students’ Affairs accepts applications through the Heads of the Departments/ Institutes for the accommodation of graduate and postgraduate students. These allotments are made strictly in accordance with the departmental merits. However, handicapped students are given preference.
How to Apply for Accommodation?
All whole time students admitted directly to the university colleges/ Teaching Departments for a regular course of study will be eligible to apply for accommodation in the University/College Halls/Hostels, provided that:
Applications for allotment of seats in the Halls/Hostels shall be submitted to the Dean of a College/Chairman/HoD of the Department, (in triplicate on prescribed form available from the College/ Department).
The students will take copies of the forms along with three copies of their photographs (passport size) pasted on them and duly attested by the Director/Chairman directly to the Hall/Hostel Warden who will keep one form with him/her and forward two forms one to the Director Students Affairs (DSA) and the other to the Chairman/ Director concerned indicating on the forms the number of room allotted to the student.
The DSA will be kept informed of the changes made in the allotment of seats within the Hall/Hostels by the Warden.
At the beginning of each academic year, a resident student shall be required to produce a certificate from the Chairman/Director of his Department to the effect that he is on the rolls of the Department/College concerned in order to get the allotment of his/her Hall/Hostel seat renewed.
The detailed rules and regulations governing hostels accommodation can be had from the office of the warden of each hostel. However, some of basic rules are listed below:
Each selected student is required to give an affidavit to the effect that he/she will abide by hostel rules and regulations failing which his/her hostel admission will be cancelled. Fee for accommodation is to be deposited in advance at CSD/LSD. Each student is required to join the hostel mess. Self-cooking is not allowed. A student can avail hostel facility for the duration of the degree programs starting from the date of commencement to the date on which final exam terminates.
Hostel accommodation is limited and the University does not undertake any responsibility for compulsory providing hostel accommodation. However, every effort is made to facilitate the accommodation in university hostels.
