Patna, Sept. 26: Boarders of hostels under Patna University (PU) occupying rooms illegally should start packing their bags. The university administration has decided to identify and evict them.

Tired of law and order problems, the PU administration has taken up the cudgels to restrict the illegal occupants in various hostels by asking boarders to submit self-declaration forms. A meeting to this effect was held at the university headquarters headed by pro-vice-chancellor J.P. Singh and attended by dean of students’ welfare, proctor, wardens and superintendent of hostels.

Randhir Kumar Singh, a teacher at Patna College and a warden of Patna College hostels, said: “In the meeting, it was decided that boarders living in the hostels have to fill five sets of self-declarations forms.”

Each set of self-declaration form will have to be submitted to the respective police station, vice-chancellor’s office, proctor, dean students’ welfare and wardens of respective hostels.

The self-declaration form will comprise the name and full residential address of each boarder, name of the college in which the student is studying, the session, local guardian’s address (if any), recent photograph of the student and his/her signature or thumb impression.

There are around 30 hostels under Patna University. Among them, the number of outsiders in Saidpur, Rani Ghat, BN College and Patna College hostels is more.

The varsity administration’s decision to tighten the noose around illegal occupants at PU hostels assumes importance following the death of Amrit Raj, a student of Patna College and a boarder of Jackson hostel on September 22, when the police had sought details of boarders residing in Patna College hostel.

The police had sought a list about students residing in hostels of Patna College — Jackson, Minto, Iqbal, Nadvi and New hostels. They wanted to know the number of students in each hostel, the number of years they had been residing there, whether they had criminal antecedents and whether the college administration knows the students’ identities.

Law and order problems are a common affair in these hostels and most of the times, former students living in hostel rooms are involved in such incidents.

The university authorities had tried to evict these illegal occupants earlier too but had failed because of pressure from students’ bodies.

Most of former students living in hostels are also associated with the ruling and the opposition political parties and their eviction time and again had taken political colour.

A boarder of BN College hostel on condition of anonymity said: “We don’t live here for free. The university charges us. Instead of vacating the hostels, the university administration must improve the infrastructure in hostels.”

Sources said passouts do not want to vacate the hostel rooms, as they are economical than rooms outside. The university charges Rs 3,260 for the first year and Rs 1,760 for the second and third years. The average rent of each room in Saidpur area is more than Rs 2,000 per month.