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Hostel Facilities at the University of Vavuniya

Overview & Capacity

The university provides hostel facilities for a limited number of students. The University of Vavuniya has four hostels to offer for accommodation. The hostels stand within the university premises and outside in rented houses. The total capacity of this hostel accommodation is 1000 students. The university provides 70 students’ accommodation at the rented houses. 

Hostel Fees and Administration

The students should pay hostel rent at the beginning of every academic year. Selected students should report to the hostel on the given date. The warden appoints the hostel committee at the beginning of every academic year. The warden is the senior member of the academic staff, and they handle disciplinary matters in hostels under the guidance and control of the vice-chancellor.

Rules and Regulations for Residential Students

The Student and Welfare Division provides residential facilities for undergraduate students and recovers hostel fees and fines for damages from accommodated students. In addition, it assigns the full-time sub-wardens to the hostels.

Common Conditions and Rules and Regulations for Residential Students

  1. The relevant sub-warden does the allocation of rooms for students.
  2. Resident students should occupy the rooms the sub-warden assigns them and should not change rooms without the permission of the sub-wardens.
  3. Students must keep the special permit for their room safe and show it whenever asked.
  4. Before taking over the room, each student should check the goods in the room and their condition and sign the register. All students occupying the rooms will be jointly responsible for the content of the rooms.
  5. Students must not remove any goods handed over to them from the hostel.
  6. Students should come to the hostels at least by 7.00 pm. Also, they should respect the privacy of other students.
  7. No students should disturb others in the room or outside.
  8. Students should not give accommodation facilities to a member of the university or outside without the permission of the full-time sub-warden.
  9. No student should change the furniture in rooms without the permission of the full-time sub-warden/warden.
  10. The students shouldn’t keep the rooms’ furniture on the balcony or outside the rooms.
  11. They should be responsible individually and collectively for the furniture in a room where more than one student is living.The hostel will charge the responsible student(s) for lost or damaged furniture.
  12. Students must not keep any hostel equipment other than what the hostel gives them for personal use.
  13. Residents are responsible for cleaning their rooms.Residents must sweep their rooms daily and leave the waste outside the entrance so the hostel cleaning staff can remove it.
  14. Residents should keep noise levels to a minimum from 9:30 pm to 6:00 am.
  15. Residents must not play musical instruments, listen to the radio, or watch television between 9.30 pm and 6.00 am.
  16. All the students of the hostels should obey the above rules and regulations. The warden has the power to punish the students who violate these rules and regulations.
  17. The university authority can suspend the students’ right to use the hostel accommodation for any valid reason for a certain period.
  18. Whenever such punishment is imposed, it is recorded in their personal file, and the parents/guardians of the students are informed.

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