IIT Delhi is situated at Hauz Khas in South Delhi, which is a landmark place in the colorful and chequered history of Delhi. Bounded by the Sri Aurobindo Marg on the east, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Complex on the west, the National Council of Educational Research and Training on the south, and the New Ring Road on the north, the Institute campus is flanked by Qutub Minar and the Hauz Khas monuments. Well connected to the major city centres by open and wide roads, the Institute campus is about 19 Km. away from the Delhi Main Railway Station, 14 Km. from the New Delhi Railway Station, 21 Km. from the Inter-State Bus Terminal and 10 Km. from Delhi Airport.
IIT Delhi offers excellent opportunities, covering a very wide range, to its students to participate in recreational and creative activities. The Students' Activity Centre is the nerve centre of all student activities on the campus. With a moat on one side and a high stone-wall on the other, the Students' Activity Centre recalls to the visitors memories of an ancient fort. The Centre comprising a Club Building, Gymnasium Hall, Swimming Pool, Amphitheatre, Music Rooms, Hobbies Workshop and a large Dark Room, caters to various hobbies of the students. They have a place to paint, to sculpt or to tinker with the radio. There are committee rooms where they can hold formal or informal meetings and a large marble-floored hall for exhibitions. On the first floor of the Centre, students have facility to play billiards.
The large gymnasium hall is over 10 m. high where the students have a place for badminton in inclement weather or to engage themselves in gymnastics. The Institute has a 16-exercise multigym. A large swimming pool with clean blue water makes their campus life cool in summer. The swimming pool is indeed the most popular sport for students during the hot summer. The pride of the Centre is its huge Amphitheatre which can accommodate 2,000 persons. With a magnificent stage and attached green rooms it is perhaps one of the finest of its kind in the country.
IIT-Delhi has 10 hostels:
Kailash and Himadri for girls
Nalanda for married students
Kumaon, Vindhyanchal, Shivalik, Jwalamukhi, Aravali, Karakoram and Nilgiri.
Each Hostel is self-contained with amenities such as a reading room, an indoor games room, a lounge and a dining hall with mess. The computer rooms are under construction. The Institute has a hospital centrally situated in the campus. It provides facilities for OPD treatment and admissions. The emergency medical facilities are available round-the-clock with 24 hours ambulance service for taking patients from campus to IIT Hospital.
The Dean of Students, in his capacity as the President of the Board for Hostel Management, is the head of the hostel organization. He is assisted in his administrative responsibilities by the Associate Dean of Students and the Assistant Registrar (Student Affairs). The Board for Hostel Management, the main function of which is to coordinate the working of all the hostels, has representation from all the hostels and takes decisions on all policies of common interest. The administrative head of each hostel, the Warden, is a senior faculty member. There are House Working Committees at the Hostel level. The House Working Committee of each hostel is composed of House Master, Warden, House Secretary, Mess Secretary, Sports Secretary, Cultural Secretary, Maintenance Secretary and Year representatives. It decides the pattern and the pace of life of each House.
Board for Students Welfare (BSW) at IIT Delhi consists of student representatives from each hostel and a few faculty members. This board has been constituted to help the students in hour of need. BSW gives financial help to students and looks after other modes of their welfare.
