Patna: Patna University has constituted a committee for allotment of hostel rooms to boarders. The university has also constituted a separate committee for allotment of hostel rooms for colleges and postgraduate departments.

The college level committee will include as members the principal, hostel warden, hostel superintendents, senior guest teacher and a law expert. For allotment of hostels rooms at the post-graduate level, the committee will comprise of hostel superintendent, warden, proctors and dean, students' welfare.

As per the university directive, students will be allotted hostel rooms based on their performance in previous academic years. Students from all subjects will be considered during allotment of hostel rooms. Under Patna University, there are 28 hostels located in the colleges and postgraduate departments, housing around 4,600 students.

Patna University dean, students' welfare (DSW), N.K. Jha said: "The new process of hostel allotments aims at providing rooms to all genuine students desiring to live in hostels. Also, under the new move, there will be transparency in allotment of hostel rooms."

Sources said the focus behind the PU administration's move is to bring transparency in hostel allotment and check illegal boarders from occupying hostel rooms.

As the principal and university administration has been given the power of hostel allotments, it will be the duty of principals and other senior university officials to check entry of illegal boarders into hostel rooms.

Sources said the university administration introduced the new process as colleges and postgraduate departments have been facing difficulties while allotting hostels rooms, especially at Patna College and in postgraduate departments.

Meanwhile, students have welcomed the new process of hostel allotments.

Sanjay Lal, a second-year undergraduate history student of Patna College, said: "The new process will bring transparency in hostel allotment. Also the university administration should strengthen the infrastructure at hostels."

As the university has constituted a committee for hostel allotments, the doors for hostel allotments at Patna College hostels - Minto and Jackson - have been opened.

Though the Patna College administration is yet to get possession of Minto and Jackson hostels from the Bihar State Educational Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (BSEIDC), which carried out renovation work, members of various students bodies have been exerting pressure on the college administration to allot the hostel rooms.